When does the child begin to speak? What to do if it does not fit within a certain time frame

Speech is one of the abilities that distinguishes a person from the animal world. By the degree of development of speech, the development of the brain as a whole is judged.

Let's find out: when the child begins to speak, that is, when the sounds and their combinations pronounced by the child can be designated as the beginning of speech. A newborn baby screams - he informs us that he is hungry, sick, he is not comfortable. But just like that, a dog comes in when you do not feed it or close it in an unfamiliar room.

So how many children start talking?

The average norms adopted by children's specialists to assess the development of the child's speech are as follows:

At the age of seven months articulation of syllables (ma-ma-ma, ba-ba-ba, etc.) arises. About twelve - the child begins to pronounce the first short words (usually consisting of one syllable).

After about six months, a year you can hear from the mouth of a son or daughter proposals consisting of two, three simple words.

During the second year of life, the speech will be improved. And by the age of three the baby can already talk with simple phrases.

To four - complex sentences.

But it's not a secret that there are "silent people" who stubbornly refuse to talk at three years, although with hearing, voice apparatus and intelligence they are all right.

Why is this happening? What prevents the baby from starting to say the words, is it really only loving parents who understand their child with a half-word?

Let's try to figure out when the child starts talking

Man is a social being, he learns by imitating others, so first of all, of course, the child must hear the speech and get involved in this process. This is a widely known fact. But it also happens that with a crumb constantly say, but he is silent and does not even try to say anything. Many will now be surprised (the pronunciation of words is easy for us, we are already doing this on the machine), and your child just does not know how to do it, his speech device does not receive the desired signal from the brain. When a child begins to speak, only when the motor speech area begins to form in his head.

Therefore, it is necessary to form and develop this center. How to do it?

If you carefully examine the map of the brain, you can see that the region of interest is very close to the area responsible for the movement, being, in fact, a part of it. This means that the speed of mastering speech depends on how well developed the child's motor skills are.

Scientists have conducted research in this field, and revealed a clear dependence of the speed of speech control on the motor activity of children, specifically on the development of their hands and fingers (the ability to perform subtle movements).

In five months, a little man begins to contrast the other fingers of the big hand. The capture of the object is now carried out not with the palm of your hand, but only with your fingers. Two months later the baby pronounces the first syllables.

At eight, nine months, he takes small objects with two fingers, and by the year the first words appear.

During all the first years of life, a new, improved finger movement first appears, followed by progress in speech. Never turns.

What to do if a child late started talking or does not speak at all

Instead of asking all of them when the child starts talking? And after hearing information, in a panic scolding the baby for his stupidity or bad, harmful character, engage in the development of fine motor skills. Do massage of fingers, mold from plasticine, draw, play finger games, practice on simulators, sort out groats, lace shoes, make beads. Teach a child to show on his fingers how old he is. Know that there is a test conducted in young children, according to the results of which you can immediately confidently say the child says already or not. The testing teacher asks the baby one by one (imitating him) to show one, two and three fingers. If the movements are clear, then the child is speaking.

Love and develop your children.