At what age is it normal for babies to start talking?

For friends who have just become parents, they are very concerned about how old their baby will be when he or she starts talking, because they are so eager to hear their children call "Mommy" and "Daddy"! So at what age is it normal for a baby to start talking? Next, this article will introduce to you the relevant content about how old a baby should be to start talking. If you want to know how old a baby should be to start talking, please continue reading!

At what age is it normal for babies to start talking? From birth, the baby will have a clearer response to the conscious exchanges or language of the caregiver. Within one month, he can make some guttural sounds, and then slowly make simple consonants and vowels. At about 8 months, he can make lip sounds very well, such as dad, mom, da da, etc. At about one year old, he will consciously call dad and mom. Between 10 months and 1 year and 2 months, he will have more spoken sentences but adults cannot understand them, and he often talks to himself. The amount of language begins to increase significantly at around 1 and a half years old. At around 2 years old, he can have 300 words, and at around 2 and a half years old, he can clearly express his wishes.

Experts say that babies start babbling and saying a few simple words and sentences when they are about one year old. If they still cannot speak by the age of two or three, it is medically known as speech delay. There are many reasons for speech delay. Usually there are three aspects that affect children's speech: physiological reasons, psychological reasons and family reasons.

From a physiological point of view, if a child has hearing problems or abnormal pronunciation organs, it will lead to inability to pronounce normally. For example, if a child has abnormalities such as a short frenulum, cleft lip, or cleft palate, there will be abnormal airflow and difficulty in vocal coordination, affecting pronunciation; if a child has hearing impairment, it will also affect language development. If a child has autism or intellectual disability, he or she may not be able to speak.

However, most children's refusal to speak is caused by their family environment. Some parents often say things that their children cannot say, and over time, the children get used to hearing them and become unwilling to speak. There are also a very small number of parents who force their children to speak or make fun of their children's inaccurate pronunciation, inadvertently hurting the children's self-esteem, and the children become unwilling to speak.

In addition, if a child has been raised listening to dialects since birth and the adults around him do not speak standard Mandarin, the child may have inaccurate pronunciation when learning Mandarin.

Due to individual differences, children also have different language abilities, with some starting to speak earlier than others and some expressing themselves more clearly than others. Mothers only see the result of their children's late speech, but do not think about the possible reasons why their children speak late. They are anxious to label their children as having intellectual problems, which is very detrimental to their children's growth.

The above is some information about how old a baby should be to start talking. I believe that after reading the above introduction, you already know at what age it is normal for a baby to start talking. From the above introduction, we can know that the baby can speak some words when he is about one year old! If your baby starts talking late, you must communicate with him more! In this way, it won't be long before the child starts speaking.