How to tell if a child is mute?

As babies grow up, they will have problems with early or late development. Many new parents will worry that their children are mute when they see that their babies speak late or have few pronunciations. In fact, if they are not professional doctors, parents have no way of determining whether their child is mute. Determining muteness requires various professional examinations such as hearing. This article introduces the specific matters, parents can come and learn about them.

How to tell if your baby is dumb

Generally speaking, even if a child is mute, there will be no obvious symptoms, so parents cannot judge. Only by taking the baby to the hospital for a hearing screening can they tell whether the baby is mute or not. The hearing screening of newborns is mainly carried out through electrophysiological tests such as otoacoustic emissions, automatic auditory brainstem response and acoustic impedance. The test results are almost error-free. It is an objective and quick examination that can be performed whether the newborn is sleeping naturally or in a quiet and awake state, and it will not cause any trauma to the newborn's body.

If a newborn is mute, it is difficult for parents to tell because children cannot speak, and even mute children can cry. Therefore, parents basically cannot judge whether their children are mute based on their own experience. Unless the child cannot speak anything by the age of three, parents have no way of knowing whether their children are mute except through hearing screening.

The above is an introduction on how to know whether the baby is mute. I hope it can be helpful to everyone. We all know that even if a baby is mute, he will cry and make a whimpering sound. However, if the baby has not reached the speaking age, he will not speak normally. Therefore, parents have almost no other way to determine whether the baby is mute except taking the baby for a hearing screening. Therefore, if parents are worried, it is best to take the baby for a hearing screening.