Parents awaiting the birth of the baby should be wondering what to delay speech development in a child and how to determine it. Not one child is insured against violations in speech development, but the consequences may be serious. In case of no appealing for help from the child's specialists, a serious lag behind their peers in psychological and intellectual development is waiting. Violations over the years are only increasing and, ultimately, this kid will need a special correctional school that for many parents will be difficult.
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How to determine the violation of speech at an early age?
To determine the violation of speech, parents must listen and pay attention to the baby from the first months of his life, to know all signs of underdevelopment of speech, and as soon as it is noticed at least one symptom, immediately refer to specialists.
The age rate of the child is as follows:
- Up to 4 months, the baby utters separate letters "A -", "U-y" and others.
- From 4-9 months, the child begins to combine different letters, smiles and actively reacts to the appeal of adult agukan.
- Before the year, the baby begins to dispense the phrases "Baba", "on-on" and others.
- From year to a year and a half there is a good response to words that can designate various items, the names of all relatives.
- Up to two years, simple phrases are used, with which the baby can explain what he wants.
- In 3-4 years, the child pronounces simple suggestions, where all the words are clearly pronounced.
Having found signs of underdevelopment of speech from his baby, parents must necessarily, not tightening, turn to such specialists as a neuropathologist, speech therapist and psychologist. It is possible that experiences are in vain and deviations in the development of speech will not be confirmed. But it will not hurt to progress about the health of your child.
Causes of underdevelopment of speech
The delay of speech development does not arise nowhere. For this violation must be caused.
- possible pathology in the development of the child in the womb;
- birth injuries;
- the speech of the child may be disturbed due to increased intracranial pressure, as well as if there is a disease of the children's brain;
- speech development delay may be a mental toddler disorder or physical injuries;
- since the child learns to talk with the help of heard words, the reason for the violation of speech can serve as bad kid ear;
- for good development, the child's speech should not guess all his wishes without words - this can lead to the fact that he will simply have no need to talk;
- the reason for the underdevelopment of speech can also serve as the poor development of the muscles of the person, and especially the mouth.
The treatment of a child with a delay in speech development will not be possible in the absence of a proper diagnosis, and for this you will need a full examination of doctors.
Diagnosis and treatment
Surveys that will help identify the cause in violation of speech development:
- Determined and evaluated the rumor of the child.
- Psychomotor development tests are held. To do this, there are various ways and graphics even for newborns.
- Conversations with parents determine the ways and the frequency of their communication with the baby.
- Breastfeeding with difficulties may indicate violations in motility of the face muscles. The doctor determines how much the child repeats the language of movement.
- Compare understanding and playback of speech.
- You may need brain tests such as: MRI, ECG, ECHO-EGG, etc.
Treatment is appointed only after the conclusion of a psychiatrist, a children's psychologist, speech therapist and a neuropathologist. These directions of therapy can be used:
- medicinal - with the help of medical drugs;
- pedagogical correction as an auxiliary effect of drug therapy;
- alternative treatment - hippotherapy or dolphinotherapy;
- therapeutic procedures - electroreflexotherapy or magnetotherapy;
- massage speech therapy - is carried out only by a specialist and has different types;
- exercises with parents at home.
It will not be much effortless to get rid of defects in the speech development of the child if parents are as attentive to the baby and will turn to specialists in time.