Each child develops at their individual schedule. And do not worry if the neighbor's baby is already full runs and tells, and your just beginning to take the first steps and more recently said the first word.
If your pipsqueak has celebrated its second birthday, but it still does not please you to coherent speech, most likely reason is the development of individual characteristics. Ask your mother-in-law, perhaps you or your husband also spoke quite late. In this case, you need to help your child to master it, More to communicate with him, to comment on what you see around you at home and walk, read books to him and tell tales.
But if pipsqueak did not speak, and after three years, it is necessary to see a specialist, and it's not a speech therapist.
Signs that it is time to go to the doctor. Usually to 4 years of age, a baby vocabulary of 1500-2000 words. He can already freely express what he wants to describe what he sees around, connected, answering questions, can recount tales of simple plot and keep the conversation going.
If at this age you can see apparent unwillingness or inability of the child to talk, do not convince yourself that the problem does not exist, go to a specialist.
To what expert to go?
In our presentation of the problems involved in speech therapist. But this is true only in the case when the baby distorts or incorrectly pronounces the sounds. If a pipsqueak refuses to talk at all, most likely the result of problems with its development of the brain and nervous system. Therefore, the sequence of actions in this case is as follows:
- Sign up for a consultation with a neurologist and make the brain electroencephalogram (EEG). This procedure is absolutely painless and is a record of the electrical activity of neurons in various brain structures, which is on the special paper by means of electrodes.
- According to the results of the EEG is possible you will need to make an appointment with a psychiatrist.
- And be diagnosed by a neuropsychologist, Get a conclusion, recommendations, and individual program neyrokorrektsii.
- And only then refer to a speech therapistWhich will help with articulation and correct pronunciation of sounds.
