Adventure Language - Mom, Dad, Car

At about 10 months, your child makes the first words. But the development of language begins much earlier. Already infants start by exploring the language. For us as parents, these first steps often sound like shouting and are stopped with a pacifier, distraction, the vial or the mother's breast.

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Language is literally in the cradle of human beings. Even very small babies try different sounds and sometimes even mimic outside sounds. If you listen to your child in this phase, you can make the amazing discovery that it tries out all sound combinations - even those from other languages ​​- before it usually begins to form understandable words in the native language at the age of about one year. You can support the process of speaking-learning. However, you can not accelerate or even force anything. Every kid has his or her own pace here and especially boys often learn to speak late. Nevertheless, you can do a lot to help your child experience the adventure language. You can give him the pleasure of speaking and listening and thus lay the foundation for a large vocabulary.

Playfully learn to speak

Children are empiricists and learn almost everything through imitation and personal experimentation. It is the same with speech. Before a child speaks his first distinct "daddy", he has been trying out sounds for months, learning how to shape the tongue and lips to produce low or high notes. What is cute babbling for us as adults is a learning process for our child, which enables him to experience language and eventually to speak for himself.

To help the child learn the language, there are the finger games, gossip and simple songs that you know from your childhood. "Cheek, Baking Cakes," "That's the Thumb," and "All My Ducklings" are not just funny kids games, but also exercises that help your child learn to speak. Start reading stories to your child early on, make it known in as many words as possible. Even as your child learns to speak at his own pace, the linguistic impressions that it hears are stored and recalled at the appropriate moment.

Phases of speaking learning

The learning of language can be in a rough time frame, from which, however, a lot of children cut out carefree.

In the first three months, the noise repertoire consists primarily of shouting. In the course of the weeks, various chewing, grunting and gurga sounds are added - your child starts to practice. At 4 months, the first syllables are formed, the Brabbel phase begins. Sometimes you even hear a random dad out of your child's mouth. This is a very experimental phase, the sounds sometimes sound almost like words of a foreign language. At the age of 6 to 9 months, the babble is accompanied by accents that the child looks away from you. From now on you can promote the language development with a lot of reading. In the period of 12 to 17 months, then the first words. The child is motivated by the realization that speaking helps him achieve goals and fulfill needs. At 1 ½ to 2 years, most children have a vocabulary of about 200 words. Mainly these are nouns. The child is constantly learning new words, chattering everything and the first two-word sentences are formed. "Come here", "go home", "do pee" - with sentences that consist of two words, a child can already express quite a few things.

From the age of three, the language continues to evolve and the vocabulary is constantly expanding. The child speaks of himself in the ego form. As a parent, as well as singing and reading aloud, you can encourage your child by talking to him a lot. Even if you express things child-friendly, you should still speak in complete sentences and with the correct words. Baby language can be fun and is great fun for parents and children. In daily interaction, correct language is important to enable the child to progress in language development.

Problems in language development

Delays are not in themselves disturbing, some children learn to speak very early, some unusually late. However, there are several pointers that you should be aware of.

If your child suddenly stops babbling at the age of 6 months, does not try to make any noise, and does not make eye contact with you, you should have it examined for possible hearing problems. If your child can not speak all the consonants at the age of three or reverses syllables, then a precautionary doctor's visit is also recommended. Also frequent stuttering should be observed. If your child still often gets stuck talking at the age of five, you should consult the doctor.

Speech development disorders can usually be treated well. The earlier you start, the easier it is to fix the problem. The therapy usually takes place here with a speech therapist or a speech therapist. But do not panic too quickly, support your child and give him the time to experience the language adventure.