Why can't the child speak?

After a child is born, he or she begins a long process of physical and physiological growth, which requires close attention, love and care from his or her parents. When children reach a certain age, they begin to babbling and learn to speak. The time it takes for each child to learn to speak and start talking is different. It may be due to different physical growth conditions or different living environments. So, what are the common reasons why children cannot speak?

The reasons for babies' late speaking include environmental and pathological factors.

(1) Environmental factors: If a family speaks to a child in a variety of dialects, for example, the child’s father speaks Mandarin, the mother speaks Shanghainese, the grandmother speaks Ningbo dialect, and the nanny speaks Sichuan dialect, then the child will feel at a loss when learning to speak. Parents communicate too little with their children. Some parents are busy with their own affairs or are taciturn and neglect verbal communication with their children. As a result, the children live in a very quiet environment from the moment they are born, have no chance to talk to adults, and their speech is delayed. Speech delays caused by environmental factors will quickly catch up to normal after improving the environment and strengthening training.

(2) Pathological factors: Some diseases, such as intellectual disability, cerebral palsy, hearing impairment, infantile autism, central nervous system damage or dysfunction, etc., can lead to speech delays, and there are also other corresponding abnormal manifestations. Children with mild intellectual developmental delay start speaking 1 to 3 years later than normal.

It is recommended to take your child to a maternal and child health care hospital for examination. For example, see if there is a possibility of congenital diseases such as cerebral palsy. And check whether the tongue, lips and other oral organs are flexible.

The child's language development is slow, which may be caused by the monotonous living environment of an elderly person raising a child. Here are a few suggestions:

1. Provide children with a rich living environment, especially a language environment. Parents should speak to them with expression often every day.

2. Enrich children's life experience so that they have something to say. Combine care for children's lives and their experiences with providing them with opportunities to speak and allowing them to talk while doing things.

3. Parents should consciously guide their children to observe things around them, and ask and talk while watching.

To understand why a child cannot speak, we generally have to start from several aspects. First, the child's physical health, whether there are congenital diseases or defects, and then see whether he has good contact with social groups and can be influenced by language. Finally, it depends on whether parents and family members take the initiative to create opportunities for language communication for their children. Therefore, parents are very important to the growth of their children.