In the process of the baby learning to speak, there will often be a phenomenon of "stuttering", as a parent, often produce anxious emotions, especially when seeing other children speak earlier and more fluently, parents will become more anxious, afraid that their children have defects in brain nerves or language expression that they have not found.
In fact, stuttering is a stage that every child will go through, because the child's need to learn a language is a process of constant familiarity, continuous trial and error while gradually perfecting his own words.
There are many reasons for children's stuttering, but most of them are necessary stages of the baby's normal growth, and parents should not be too nervous.
1. The characteristics of the murmuring stage itself
When your baby is about four months old, the language system has matured and started to try to work. This is the so-called murmuring stage, and children in this stage begin to consciously imitate the words that appear frequently in the mouths of their parents, and most of the words spoken are overlapping words, such as "daddy", "mommy" and "rice". Because this new skill is not proficient, there is often a phenomenon of not opening the mouth and not making a sound, and it takes two or three seconds to say the words you want to say, which is the characteristic of the murmuring stage itself, and the language stage that everyone goes through in the process of growing up.
2. Transformation of telegraph sentences and complex sentences
When the baby has passed the murmuring stage, it slowly got rid of the situation of only saying stacked words, entered the telegraph sentence stage, can be simple word collocation, such as "dinner meal", "to hug", etc., at this time the baby's words show a fractured feature, although it can accurately express its own members, but because it does not have the ability to connect these phrases into a sentence, so there will often be a "cassette" situation.
Babies tend to use two responses when facing this situation, one is to choose to pause for a while until they learn how to continue, and the other is to repeat the phrase or the last word that has been said before knowing how to express the next phrase. This will give parents the impression that their children have some stuttering and sluggishness.
The telegram sentence is followed by a complex sentence, and the baby begins to learn how to use related words or prepositions, auxiliaries and conjunctions to string these phrases together to construct a complete sentence. During this period, the baby will not only have the problem of pause in speech, but also prone to problems such as logical confusion or improper order.
Therefore, parents do not have to worry too much, the child's stuttering is actually the external manifestation of him actively thinking with his brain.
3. Psychological causes
If the first two reasons must be experienced and naturally transitioned, then stuttering due to psychological problems is a more serious problem, this kind of stuttering is not benign and natural, and it is difficult to solve it by the baby himself.
Most of the stuttering principles caused by psychological problems lie in the fact that babies are afraid to speak and reduce the number of times they speak, and they have not been well exercised in this golden period of language development, resulting in a lack of verbal expression ability.
Often because their parents or those around them did not give a positive feedback when they first started learning to speak, such as parents showing strong dissatisfaction, disgust or impatience when the baby spoke slowly or made mistakes, or always interrupting or ignoring the baby when he shared his happiness.
Because of the parents' attitude and lead to the baby has no desire to speak or even afraid to speak, the impact of this psychological problem will not only act on the matter of speaking, children who grow up in such an environment are more likely to suffer from autism and depression, and will not express themselves well, showing low desire, no self-confidence, and relatively inferiority.
4. Congenital factors.
If the baby is born in a family that stutters, the probability of the baby getting sick is 36% to 55%.
How can parents help their children develop language skills?
Give the baby enough patience and encouragement, listen attentively when the baby speaks, and do not urge the baby when he pauses to stutter, because the tension will aggravate his stuttering phenomenon, and parents can say a word to the baby at this time. "Take your time, don't be in a hurry", and don't show any negative emotions.
With the encouragement and tolerance of parents, the baby will be more willing to talk to parents, and work hard to exercise their speaking ability in order to get praise from parents when they express themselves next time.
At the same time, parents should also create a slower language environment for the baby at this stage, consciously slow down the speed of their own speech, so that the baby can recognize and imitate the parents' words. Communicate with the baby more after work, share interesting things in the day, so as to stimulate the baby's desire to share, in order to better share their happiness with the mother, the baby will consciously learn more words and expressions, so as to exercise his language skills.
In short, most of the stuttering phenomenon is harmless, parents should actively help the baby to smoothly through this period, which is not only good for the baby to speak, but also for the establishment of parent-child relationship is also of great help.