Language is an important key for children’s learning skill. They need to learn the language for communication, imagination, expression, and adjustment. Accordingly, the children require a language skill along with others in order to be used as a tool, helping kids to adjust all things around properly.
Types of children with delayed language development and speech.
- Hearing Loss – meaning a child has hearing impairment or ability to hear a sound more than 25 decibels. Causing a language and speech problem due to being unable to hear a speaking voice from people as normal.
- Brain damage – damage meaning the children are having a brain disorder, based on lesion and infection. Such as children with neurological disorders which directly impact on body movement.
- Autist – means children have delayed language development including these skills: social interaction, communication, behavior, and understanding. These symptoms usually occur before reaching 30 months old. Which can with other deficiencies. However, children always avoid eye contacting, and not be able to understand a command, and love being an introvert. Besides, the children love making a sound, repeat doing something. And there is a problem responding to a sensation such as seeing, feeling, listening, smelling, or tasting. Lastly, sometimes the respondence can be too sensitive or too slow.
- Mental retardation – meaning a child intelligence skill is lower than 70 according to IQ Intelligence Quotient, Language development and other delayed especially the use of eyes and hands such as beading. There are other problems as well, for instance, interpretation and talking skill, self-care, socialization, and education, etc. But these problems must happen before the age of 18.
- A lack of proper speech improvement is needed – despite children can understand a language well, but if having no time or feeling to speak due to there are many people who speak on behalf of them already, causing a delayed speaking. But if there is a change of the environment, their skills will become better.
If you already know your child has the problem seeing a doctor to receive an accurate diagnose from a specialist: psychiatrists, psychologists, pediatricians, hearing examiners or speech therapists, etc.However, to correct the slow speech of your children then support their the development of speaking as soon as possible, teaching them to learn a language from a young age for a faster treatment. Because If you know soon Modifications or improvements. The children will be faster.
