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Toddlers usually started to talk at age 1.5 or 2 and above.
First words are important to eager waiting parents and grandparents but not all toddlers could talk early.
Language delay often occurs in toddlers are unable to speak anything that adults could understood easily.
When my son reached his first birthday, he couldn’t utter a single word at all. Not even Pa or Ma
Every family members claimed that my son had autism
However, my son’s pediatric calmly told us that my son wasn’t ready to talk yet. He doesn’t have any autism symptoms at all.
Then one day, my son started to utter his first word “Mama” at age 3.5 years old.
Most of the time, toddlers say a word/ words that sound “gibberish” or jargon that are vague , unclear, sounds odd.
These jargon words may not sound like a mother’s tongue language to parents, caregiver or grandparents.
However, if one listens to the child carefully, pay full attention when he rambles “couldn’t make out what he is talking about“, you may noticed that his jargon words have the similar rhythmic pattern speech.
A child speaks jargon words in order to satisfy his needs to communicate with his parents , adults or his older siblings , even though his limitation of vocabulary knowledge.
Another way a toddler speaks is using single or double syllabus sound.
He used the first or last half of the word to symbolize the whole word or sentence.
Neh neh = milk
Dada= Daddy
Mama= Mommy
Ship= Sleep
Gradually, you are able to understand how your toddler progress in his “talking “.
Lend him your attentive ears, pay attention to his “talk” because when he knows that you are listening, he is willing to keep trying to improve his talking ability.
You will be surprised when he is able to catch up with new words easily, only part of the word but he is willing to imitate your speech with delight.
Although it may take years for your child to practice a PERFECT speech, give him some time, space and patience.
Most toddlers started to utter his first word at age 1 or 1.5 years old.
If you do not hear him talking after his 2nd birthday, here are the possible reasons behind his language / speech delay:
If one of the parents is a late talker or has language delay problem, the child may follow his parent pattern due to his family DNA / heredity.
His mouth, tongue muscles are developing slowly compare to normal growing child.
One of the reasons why your 1st child speaks at an early age is due to the fact that parents and grandparents have more time to encourage your 1st child to speak.
To encourage a child to speak, family members would spend more time in repeating words, teaching the child to follow parents’ mouth and tongue actions which requires more patience and “Never give up” effort.
Toddler with older sibling may become late talker because he cannot catch up with them, unable to verbally communicate with them as older siblings do not have the same patience as parents do.
Generally, little girls do speak earlier than little boys, regardless of race or skin color.
In addition, parents prefer t speak with daughters than sons because little boys would not sit still to listen.
They are always running around, hyperactive than girls.
A toddler tends to speak earlier if he is expose to rich verbal environments.
If a toddler stays at home with his caregiver or grandparents throughout his childhood days, he has less opportunity to socialize with other toddlers which decreases his verbal skill and unable to embrace new language.
A family that speaks more than 2 languages at home also may delay the toddler speech because he not unsure which language to speak.
Provide different environment with the same language first, in order for your child to speak with confident and fluently.
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I was among the kids that speak late. I developed the speaking capacity around the age of 2...much later than other kids
When one of my children was in elementary school, we all thought she had a speech impediment. When she grew up a doctor finally told her she had a problem with her hearing. Glad it all got straightened out eventually.
I have always believed that kids who are born into a family where people are constantly speaking to one another is most likey to speak earlier in life. The only thing I didn't know is the fact that gender has a role to play in all this. I never knew that parents prefer speaking to their daughter's more often than the boys. One thing I know is that boys are usually very stubborn and trying to teach them something really needs a lot of patience. Though I can recall when my nephew was born I think that boy was to rather to start talking he started a little earlier than some kids he was already uttering small small words like mama and dada meaning daddy at the young age of 1 year and in no time he was even able to ask for things especially when he is hungry he will Uttar a word like ik which meant milk of course with kids that will always leave out the main letter. But kids are awesome as much as they get on their parents nerves they are a precious lot.
Speaking is an art from the cradle to grave but everyone speak but a few talk sensible because speech is made on the basis of images and images are given by God on which the whole world foundation is built. Think God just say, let it be done it is done no speech, no use of words just a strong and might intention works.
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