In the first weeks after birth, the baby can only scream. But every day this cry becomes more conscious, different intonations appear. Mom can already distinguish when the baby is hungry, when he needs attention, and when the diaper needs to be changed.
After the scream, the stage of humming begins, when the baby pronounces various variations of the sounds -agu, -gy, -ge and others. Typically this occurs between 4 and 8 weeks of age. Then the child moves from babbling to babbling, and then to whole words. Booming and babbling are important for speech development. Due to this, they learn to pronounce sounds and build chains of syllables.
Stages of child speech development
- In the first weeks of life, the baby still does not know how to establish contact. Emotional communication is just beginning to be established. And a newborn expresses feelings and needs only with the help of a cry;
- In the second month, the baby’s feelings and needs become more conscious, new intonations and emotions appear. You can attract the attention of the baby through various influences on vision, hearing and touch;
- By the third month, the baby feels the need to communicate with an adult. He begins to walk and waits for a response;
- In the fourth month, the baby listens to the human voice, tries to repeat the movements of the lips and sounds of the adult;
- At six months, the baby begins to walk or pronounce the first syllables, and at first only once. Then gradually he begins to repeat them one after another;
- By the age of one year, the child can already pronounce simple words.
From babbling to full speech
17.02.2020
Children discover language: from babbling “yes-yes” or “ka-ka” to a whole sentence, the child goes a long way. How does he learn to speak, and how can you help him with this?
“Mom”, “give” - parents are usually immensely happy and proud when they hear the words spoken for the first time. The child’s vocabulary is gradually expanding, and almost every four-year-old can already speak fluently.
Beginning: Wordless Communication
From birth, the baby communicates by making sounds . The first vowels “a”, “u”, “o” are followed by “guu” and “aguu”. Humming, babbling, and screaming help the mother understand whether the child is happy or needs something. Babies become aware of their needs very early, using sounds hunger, pain or fatigue. Almost all mothers understand these sounds , but if the mother does not know the reason, a loud and long cry awaits her.
From the age of six months, children babble a lot
After the first vowels “a”, “o”, “u” come “guu” and “aguu”. The baby gradually develops his speech apparatus and does this with noticeable pleasure. He emotionally masters different combinations and possibilities, amuses himself with sounds , as if conducting experiments with the vocal cords and muscles, experiencing, to the chagrin of his parents, different sound . Starting from the sixth month, sound combinations that do not yet have real content are arranged in such a way that parents evaluate this as linguistic intonation - and they are not mistaken: children of this age already listen carefully and impatiently imitate everything they hear. The sounds and modulations of the voice can resemble the sound of a real language. Even if it's mostly just repeating consecutive syllables, like "ba-ba-ba."
Gradual expansion of vocabulary
The vast majority of babies pronounce their first words at about one year of age. One or two syllables, they mean a lot to a child. The classic “baba” or “papa” makes him happy. Of course, such pleasure encourages him to pronounce more and more words.
A two year old's vocabulary (mostly nouns) is exploding. A finger pointing to the corresponding object and the spoken word is how the baby comprehends the Universe of language. During this period, he often pronounces up to ten or more words during the day. The first two-word sentences are formed - “mom is sitting” or “the car is driving.” For a child, these are attractive steps in the sphere of communication.
After the second birthday, the baby discovers himself as a person, which is reflected in the language. The vocabulary is enriched by pronouns such as “I” and “you”. Three-word phrases come easier from your lips. Energetic "I'm hungry!" indicates that speech is developing linguistically correctly.
From the third birthday, many children can correctly construct sentences, give an answer to a question, comprehend complex structural sentences, and pose questions. They learn to use sentence intonation correctly.
How to support a child?
The best way to make your journey through the linguistic world easier is to talk to your baby, read to him and include him in conversations. In rhymes and nursery rhymes, children learn to develop a sense of linguistic melody. Use expansive contact through language, gestures, and facial expressions. Encourage your child! Do not point out to him the shortcomings in the pronunciation of words. Over time, correct pronunciation will successfully become automatic.
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Speech development in the first months of life
By three to four months, the baby can already laugh loudly or show dissatisfaction. The baby can experience and experience joy and curiosity, fear and resentment. Laughter and smiling at this age occur consciously.
The mental and emotional development of a baby at 4 months is characterized by increased animation. The baby reacts to familiar voices and faces, toys and objects, waves his arms and legs, laughs or smiles back. He studies his body, touches his hair and face, examines his fingers, legs and arms. The child is interested in looking at himself in the mirror. Plus, he already recognizes and responds to the name!
Children at four months easily pronounce the vowel sounds “a” and “o”, the consonants “b”, “p” and “m”, and begin to speak simple syllables. To develop speech, talk to your child regularly and actively use facial expressions! Show picture cards and say the names out loud. In addition, at this time the baby perceives sounds that imitate the sounds of animals.
At what age does a child begin to babble?
The baby begins to babble or pronounce the first syllables at 6-7 months. But this is a conditional framework. When a baby begins to babble depends on the child's individual development, temperament and character.
Some active children babble already at 4-5 months. And calm and quiet babies begin to pronounce syllables only at 9-10 months. It is interesting that some children remain silent for a long time and absorb knowledge, and then immediately begin to pronounce several syllables and even simple words.
Babies begin to speak simple syllables such as “ba”, “ma”, “ta”, etc. after the fifth month. At first, they pronounce such syllables once and rarely, then more often and repeating one after another. Thus, they line up in chains and already make up whole words, like, ma-ma, ba-ba, pa-pa.
In many ways, when the baby begins to babble and speak depends on the intensity of the activities. Regular exercise will help your child develop properly.
About baby talk
Between 3 and 6 months of age, your baby may make two different vowel sounds and babble alone. He begins to combine consonant and vowel sounds and pronounce something that resembles the syllables “ba” or “da.” Notice that the baby makes different sounds to express different feelings. In addition, he will try to imitate the speech of adults with the sounds that are available to him.
Between 6 and 9 months of age, your baby can make at least four different sounds. He pronounces two-syllable "words" of repeated syllables, such as "dada", "mama", "baba". At this time, the child develops the ability to make sounds or perform any actions in turn with an adult. The humming gradually turns into clear speech sounds, and by 6 months babbling appears. It consists of repeated syllables and is therefore remarkably reminiscent of speech. “Yes-da-da”, “ba-ba-ba”, “pa-pa-pa”, “ma-ma-ma”. Such syllables can sometimes be mistaken for meaningful speech, but these, of course, are not words yet.
In order to attract attention, the baby screams or makes loud noises when someone does something he doesn’t like. The child greets a familiar person, smiles and raises his voice. By this moment, the ability to imitate appears; the child can already imitate actions - clap his hands or wave his hand goodbye.
The baby babbles in a variety of situations. Waking up in a good mood, the child joyfully begins to say: “Ga-ga-ga.” Here he smiles widely, looks at his mother and repeats with great pleasure: “Ga-ha-ha.”
When performing actions with objects and toys, the baby actively babbles. The child reaches out to a beautiful toy, holds it with his fingers, takes it into his mouth, accompanying his actions with sounds.
Simultaneously with babbling, the child begins to make emotional exclamations and cries, which he needs to express joy or dissatisfaction. The baby is happy or indignant when adults understand him or not. In this way he shows his ability to communicate verbally. As your child becomes more active and begins to show great interest in toys, talk to him about anything. The baby will have his own specific preferences, which will tell you topics for conversation. Before he learns to speak, you can introduce him to the names of the objects that attract him most at one time or another. It is advisable not to limit yourself to just the names of objects. Try discussing movements and actions, colors and sounds with your child.
Caring parents should be reminded that young children often look from one object to another. Therefore, if you just start following your baby, then, of course, it will be difficult for you to concentrate his attention on the meaning and sound of the words that he needs to learn. But the day and hour will come when you want to go beyond the child’s immediate interests during your conversations. And this problem can also be solved if you play a little with your baby every day with a limited number of toys. Try to choose those toys that the child has recently preferred to others, excluding for a while everything that can distract his attention.
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Baby speech development at 6-12 months
Talk to your child, tell stories with gestures and movements, sing rhythmic songs. Use different intonations, because children already at six months recognize sounds, feelings and tones in their voice. They monitor not only speech, but also lip movements. Therefore, do not forget about facial expressions!
A six-month-old baby plays well with toys. He can already search and reach for them. Show your baby your favorite dog or other animal and hide it to the side. The baby will immediately turn in the direction where you hid the toy. He will begin to stretch out his arms and babble. Help the baby and say “Where is the dog? Where did the dog go? Here she is! Take the dog! How does a dog bark? Av-av.”
Use picture cards. Speak clearly the names of the pictures and imitate the sounds of animals. The baby will repeat after the adult with joy and interest. Such activities and games progress speech development. By the way, at six months you can leave your baby alone for a while so that he can try to occupy himself. This way, the child will become focused and independent. Read more about the development of a baby at six months by following the link.
When the baby begins to pronounce words, you need to train the muscles of the cheeks and lips. As a rule, this occurs at 11-12 months. At this time, children already say about 10 easy words, like “mom”, “dad”, “grandfather”, “baba”, “give”, “out”, “here”, “there”, etc. In addition, they imitate the sounds of animals and pronounce “meow”, “woof”, “mu” and so on.
To train the muscles of the lips and cheeks, pediatricians recommend using whistles, a toy flute or a harmonica.
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