Is language proficiency something that everyone is born with? Apparently not. Language is the product of the progress of human society, originally only to facilitate hunter-gatherers and deliver red flags. With the advent of agricultural civilization, the ancestors explored the world more extensively, simple syllables could no longer meet the needs, and a more complex and systematic language system came into being.
Since language is the invention of human beings, it naturally takes a long time to learn and master it, so today, children who want to initially master language skills must go through at least 4-6 years. Language is so important to us, but it seems to come with the growth of infants and young children, do not need too much attention from adults?
Many people do not understand that there is also a thing called "language barrier", which may also come to the child with the development of the baby. Any abnormality in speech, semantics, grammar, pragmatics, language expression or language cognition, or a delay or abnormality in language development, can be regarded as a language barrier.
For example, some children are three years old and can't even say ten words, let alone the whole sentence. The children are like this, the parents are not concerned about it, think that this is all a drizzle of small things, in two years the children themselves can be good. However, what they don't know is that children can't speak, and it is not only the language ability that is delayed, but also the intelligence that will be damaged!
My kids are not mentally retarded!
Presumably, parents and friends have more or less heard of it, or have personally experienced language development delay, and are not unfamiliar with the notoriety of this language problem that cannot be hidden. In general, young children begin to speak at the age of 10-12 months, and after several stages of development, initially master language skills at the age of 4.
Count how difficult it is for a child to go from just speaking a single word to a full sentence output of a dozen words in just 3 years. However, many parents think that speaking is a skill that children can definitely master, even if there are some small episodes in the middle, it will not hinder things, what is language development delay? Minor glitches, not worth mentioning.
Parents who have studied parenting knowledge a little deeply should know that language development delay is not a small problem, poor language ability is just a manifestation of it, and the intelligence of children with serious symptoms will be damaged!
"How come the language thing still involves intelligence?" Many parents have this doubt, but the fact is that many children who are late in school will not have good academic performance and social skills are much worse than those of children of the same age.
I once met a child who, when a child is more than 2 years old, the symptoms of delay are obvious, and by the age of 4, he can still say much less than his peers. Although the child also wants to play with the children, the helpless classmates hate him for being too poor in speaking ability, and he is always half a beat slower than others.
Kindergarten teachers are very concerned about children, everywhere to maintain children, but everywhere inferior baby or let some naughty children have a "weak mind" nickname. Children who are always bullied don't cry less, don't even want to go to kindergarten, and parents see this situation to realize how far-reaching the effects of language development delay are.
In addition to intellectual impairment, these should also be noted
Intellectual impairment is the most serious consequence of allowing language development to be delayed, and it is not until about the age of 5, that is, when the child gradually comes into contact with systematic education, that is, the intellectual disability will slowly manifest itself. Until then, the impact of language delay will also involve all aspects of children's growth and life.
Language, learning, socializing, personality, psychology... The comprehensive absence of these aspects is something that many families do not see. "Our son is good except that he can't speak, and everyone praises!" Is this really the case? Isn't it because you don't see the problem of the child, or because people just want to flatter you?
About 17 percent of newborns each year have a variety of developmental problems, nearly 10 percent of whom are language delays. Why is language delay so high and its harm so widespread? This is inseparable from the characteristics of the language itself.
Language is a tool invented by mankind, and all areas of human civilization are inseparable from language and writing. The biggest function of language is to communicate and communicate, if you want to communicate with people without hindrance, learn various survival skills, and speaking must be fully mastered by children.
Poor language skills, children's performance in social scenes must not be good, and humans are social animals, learning, personality and psychological development are related to social interaction. For children who are late in speech, the degradation to the point of using meaningless monosyllabic syllables and backward body movements to show the need is not what they themselves want, nor is it what the parents want to see, because this will constantly bring trouble to the child.