Why is my baby late in speaking?

In today's social life, we often see slogans such as "Not having offspring is the greatest misfortune" on the propaganda boards of certain planning offices, so every family is looking forward to the arrival of a little life. At the same time, the baby's health becomes their top concern. What they like most is to hear their child speak and call them mom and dad, which makes them feel that it is worth it no matter how hard it is. So what is the reason for the baby's late speech?

Late speech may be a sign of illness

Delayed language development in children may be caused by a variety of abnormalities, common diseases include:

Hearing impairment

It includes complete deafness and partial hearing loss, and the causes are both congenital and acquired.

1 to 2 years old is an important stage in the language development of infants and young children. If the hearing is impaired during this stage, the child will not receive any language stimulation, which will inevitably lead to language development disorders or even deafness. Generally speaking, congenital hearing loss is easier to be noticed by parents. However, many parents do not take their children to the hospital for examination until their children are two or three years old or even five or six years old, when they find that their children cannot speak or speak unclearly. However, by then the best treatment period has often passed, and even if hearing aids are worn, the effect of language learning is not ideal.

Some children are born with normal hearing, but later suffer hearing loss due to illness or ototoxic drugs (such as gentamicin), so attention should also be paid to older babies. You should also be alert if you find that your child does not react or is not afraid or crying when hearing a loud noise, and if you call his name out of sight and he does not pay attention, or if you ask him to do some simple actions (such as nodding, shaking his head, stomping his feet, waving, etc.) and he does not react.

Mental retardation

It refers to a group of diseases in which the intelligence of a child is significantly lower than the average level of children of the same age during the developmental period, and is accompanied by some behavioral disorders.

There are many causes of mental retardation. Some are caused by congenital factors, such as genetic metabolic diseases, congenital malformations, maternal viral infection before birth, etc.; some are caused by acquired environmental factors, such as asphyxia at birth, cerebral hypoxia and ischemia, brain trauma, brain tumors, etc.; educational factors are also an important cause of mental retardation, such as poor education, environmental deprivation, emotional deprivation, etc.

Children with severe mental retardation often have other abnormalities, such as abnormal facial and body shape (children with congenital idiocy have eyes that are too wide apart, slanted eyes, collapsed nose bridge, drooling with open mouth and tongue sticking out, etc.), delayed motor development, feeding difficulties, etc. Language delay is only one of the manifestations, so it can attract the attention of parents at an early stage. However, some children with mild mental retardation may have hidden symptoms, such as inactivity, lack of movement, apathy, difficulty feeding, etc., which can easily be ignored. For parents, if you find that your child still cannot make purposeful sounds at the age of two, or just shouts aimlessly, you should take your child to see a doctor in time.

Autism

This term may still be quite unfamiliar to many parents, but in recent years, more and more children have come to the doctor for treatment due to autism.

Autism, also known as autism, is a neurodevelopmental disorder. Some people think that autism is caused by a closed family environment and a lack of communication, which leads to children becoming lonely and introverted. This statement has been proven to be unscientific. It is currently believed that the cause of autism may be related to genes and heredity.

It may also be normal

There is a saying among the people that "noble people speak late", and that children who speak late will be smarter. This saying is unfounded. Clinically, there is indeed a type of children with speech delay who are not pathological and do not require special intervention. This is called "idiopathic language delay." This type of child is normal in terms of intelligence, hearing, behavior, etc., but starts speaking very late. He may not speak anything at the age of two and a half or three years old, or may only be able to say very simple words. But once he can speak, it seems that he suddenly can say everything.

After reading the above introduction about why babies speak late, I think everyone should have some understanding. There are many reasons why babies speak late, but sometimes it may be a signal from certain diseases that prompts mothers, so parents should pay special attention. Sometimes it may be a problem with the child’s personality, and parents should discover it early and cure it as soon as possible.