Speech is one of the abilities that sets a person apart from the animal world. The degree of development of speech is used to judge the development of the brain as a whole.
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, not comfortable. But just like that, a dog does it when you do not feed it or close it in an unfamiliar room.
So how many children start talking?
The average standards adopted by children's specialists to assess the development of a child's speech are as follows:
At the age of seven months, the articulation of syllables appears (ma-ma-ma, ba-ba-ba, etc.). About twelve - the child begins to pronounce the first short words (often consisting of one syllable).
After about six months, a year, you will be able to hear from the mouth of a son or daughter sentences consisting of two, three simple words.
During the second year of life, speech will be improved. And by the age of three, the baby will already be able to speak in simple phrases.
To four - difficult sentences.
But it’s no secret that there are “silencers” who stubbornly do not want to speak even at the age of three, although they have everything in order with hearing, voice apparatus and intelligence.
Why it happens? What prevents the baby from starting to utter words, is it really only loving parents who understand their child perfectly?
Let's try to figure out when the baby starts talking
Man is a social being, he learns by imitating others, so the first thing, of course, is for the child to hear speech and get involved in this process. This is a widely known fact. But it also happens that they always speak with the crumbs, but he is silent and does not even make attempts to say anything. Many will be surprised right now (the pronunciation of words is easy for us, we perform this action already on the machine), and your child just does not know how to do this, his speech apparatus does not receive the desired signal from the brain. When the child begins to speak, yes 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 study the map of the brain, you can see that the area of interest to us is very close to the area responsible for movement, being, in fact, a part of it. So, the speed of mastering the speech depends on how well developed the motor skills of the child are.
Scientists conducted research in this area, and revealed a clear dependence of the speed of speech acquisition on the motor activity of children, specifically on the development of their hands and fingers (the ability to perform subtle movements).
At five months, the little man begins to contrast the other fingers with a large one. The capture of the item is now carried out not with the palm, but only with the fingers. Two months later, the baby pronounces the first syllables.
At eight, nine months, he takes small objects with two fingers, and the first words appear by the year.
During all the first years of life, a new improved movement of the fingers first appears, followed by progress in speech. It never happens on the back.
What to do if the child starts talking late or does not speak at all
Instead of asking everyone in a row when the child begins to speak? And after hearing the information, in a panic to scold the baby for his stupidity or bad, harmful character, get involved in the development of fine motor skills. Do a finger massage, sculpt from plasticine, draw, play finger games, practice on simulators, sort out groats, lace up shoes, make beads. Teach your child to show how old he is on his fingers. Know that there is a test conducted in young children, according to the results of which you can immediately confidently say whether the child already or not. The testing teacher asks the baby in turn (imitating him) to show one, two and three fingers. If the movements are clear, then the child is talking.
Love and develop your children.