What is the reason why children speak late?

In modern society, children's intelligence is really getting higher and higher. Children of a few years old even act and say things like adults. Under normal circumstances, children will start to speak after they are one year old. Although they cannot speak clearly, they will babble. However, some children start speaking relatively late and still cannot speak at the age of 2 or 3, which is a bit abnormal. So what is the reason why children speak late?

Is the language environment too complex? In many families today, the language context is not unified, such as the baby’s grandmother speaks the local dialect, the mother speaks Cantonese, and the father speaks Mandarin. When faced with several different languages ​​at the same time, a baby in his language-sensitive period will not know who to learn from, and he may choose not to speak.

Are you doing too much for your baby, depriving him of the opportunity to speak? Many "diligent" parents over-indulge their children, making their babies lazy to speak and lose the motivation to learn to speak. If the child wants to drink water and just opens his mouth to ask for it, the quick-eyed and quick-handed parents will have already handed him the cup of water. Over time, the child will develop a lazy mentality and will no longer be willing to speak, but will express his or her needs through gestures and eye contact.

Is there a lack of communication with the baby, so that the baby has no context to learn to speak? Nowadays, in most families, children are taken care of by the elderly, who are quiet and taciturn. If parents do not have sufficient language communication with their children after get off work, the children will lack the environment for learning language, and their language development will naturally be affected.

Do you often blame your baby and worry about his/her late speaking? Many parents like to compare their babies with babies of the same age. If they criticize their babies in front of others for not speaking as clearly and fluently as other children, or even laugh at their babies for inaccurate pronunciation, it will hurt their self-esteem and make them feel fear and disgust towards speaking.

If a baby starts talking late, it may also be due to problems with the parents' education methods. Some parents worry too much about their children, or rarely talk to their children, or laugh at their children's incorrect pronunciation, which will affect their children's enthusiasm for speaking and is not conducive to their language development. Some parents see that other children learn to speak very early, so they force their own children to learn to speak immediately, but this is not a good idea.