Two days ago, I went to visit a relative's house and met my cousin and sister, who was playing with her little cousin. I walked over to tease my cousin, and in the process of playing with him, I found that he rarely spoke, most of his hands and feet were moving, and we asked him questions with actions to answer, so I asked my younger sister: "How old is he now, how does he feel that he doesn't talk much?" My younger sister heard this very frustrated and replied to me: "He is now one year old and 8 months old, I also have a headache, I don't know why he is not willing to talk, other children of the same age around him will say a lot of words, but he will only send some "babble yah hmm" sound, usually ask what is nodding and shaking his head, is not willing to say, generally at this time the children will not talk to the model of our adults, but how he feels no interest at all, I don't know what to do. ”
In response to this confusion of my younger sister, I had a good chat with her later, and shared with her my previous reserves of knowledge, including the experience of taking a baby, and I also shared it with you below, hoping to help parents with similar situations.
Babies don't like to talk We must first rule out whether the baby has hearing impairment, intellectual development problems, cleft lip and palate, autism and other congenital abnormalities.
According to the younger sibling's statement, the cousin can rule out this factor, so what other reasons can cause the baby to be more than one year old and not able to speak? According to the usual growing environment of my cousin, I summarized the following points:
1. Excessive use of electronic products.
With the development of science and technology, electronic products have become a new generation of baby artifacts, babies do not eat, come, mobile phones to you; babies are too noisy, come, TV to you; babies make trouble, come, give you tablets. No matter when, as long as you can't stand the baby, as long as an electronic product is given to them, they can quickly quiet down, and then quickly indulge in it, and the final result is how you call them, they may not hear, naturally will not reply to you.
2. Less interaction and communication with children
Cousins and cousins are usually busy at work, basically only in the evening to come back to accompany the children, while uncles and aunts are usually busy with farm work, and only when they are idle will they tease the baby. This causes the baby to play alone most of the time, and the end result is that the child's language development is delayed.
3. The language is intricate
A family situation in the cousin's family is like this, the uncle and aunt have a low level of education, usually speak in dialects, and the cousins and couples usually speak in dialects and Mandarin, which leads to them communicating with the baby when they use Mandarin for a while and use dialects for a while, which makes the baby's language confused, do not know what to use to answer is correct, simply do not speak.
4. Parents rush to help their children express
Children in the first practice of speaking will be slurred, expression bumpy, I believe that at this time many parents, especially anxious parents will be anxious to help them express, so that the baby will feel that you all understand their meaning, as long as they have a small hand, since someone to help them, and why should they bother with their tongue, naturally it will lead to the slow development of children's language.
Knowing what causes it, what do we parents do at this time?
1, spend more time with children, less play electronic products.
Children's growth can not be separated from interpersonal social interaction, their world needs our stimulation, therefore, parents do not in order to figure out the quiet, has been to the baby electronic products to play, to spend more time with the child, take the child out, meet more children, let them learn to express in the play companionship.
2. Communicate with children more
The child's first learning is from the imitation of the beginning, parents should guide the child to speak more, do not help the child to speak, when the baby has the desire to express, we must be patient to wait for them to express themselves, encourage them to speak out, while actively responding to the child's language.
3. Exercise your baby's chewing ability
Chewing ability helps to make the baby's tongue more flexible, and the flexibility of the tongue is related to our pronunciation, so parents can consciously exercise the baby's chewing ability in their daily lives to help them pronounce as soon as possible.