When the child begins to babble

When the child begins to babble

The first festivities of the child touch adults, they want to listen to it again and again. The first sounds - an important stage in development of the kid both in speech, and in the psychoemotional plan. However not each mom knows when her kid has to begin to babble and whether it is necessary to worry if it does not occur.

What are the child's festivities

First of all it is worth defining that such festivities of the kid as to distinguish it from other types of onomatopoeia. The fact that children who belong to various language groups begin to speak with identical sounds is curious. The kind of speech activity - festivities - is called so thanks to the similarity to a pigeon vorkotaniye.

The child begins to say vowels, after that there is a guttural speech. When the kid it becomes distinct to say "about", "and", "э", "at", "ы", "and", he will begin to connect sounds in "gua", "aha - hectare", to "agug", etc. Such action gives it great pleasure, it "plays" with the lips, language and a throat.

When months the child begins to babble

By the time of emergence of the first speech skills the baby already adapted to the outside world, he recognizes surrounding people and answers them at communication with a smile. The kid needs to pay more attention and more often to talk, but not just to look after him. Positive reaction of parents to the sounds said by it is necessary for it, in that case the festivities will begin to repeat more often. Adults can organize the real talk with the child, exaggerating sounds and paying his attention to setting of lips and also to put out tongue. At the same time the kid watches parents, and then copies their pronunciation. Narrow-purpose experts and pediatricians determined the period to which functions of a brain, responsible for the beginning of informal conversation, ripen. The festivities at the kid arise to 2-3-month age when the baby smiles and surely hold the head. This important stage of formation of the speech lasts to 5-7-month age.

Why the child does not babble

Parents of the child whose development does not meet the above-stated temporary standards should not panic. Each kid develops is unique and is individual therefore advancing/lag - the normal phenomenon. It is right in case there are no burdening factors when the child does not babble at all, unexpectedly ceased to do it, or began to babble after 7-month age. That is, if your baby reacts to the environment, is cheerful, healthy, well puts on weight, but at the same time, so he babbles as it should be a little, it is just its individual norm which does not affect the general development in any way. In time to reveal serious violations in speech development, obligatory planned inspection of the kid at the otolaryngologist is necessary. The doctor will be able to establish an objective cause of infringement of the speech or hearing aid and to answer questions of parents why their child does not babble.

How to teach to babble the child

If the child does not babble, parents need to take the following actions: - often and emotionally to communicate with the kid; - to develop its fine and gross motor skills, allowing the baby to touch objects, different in the invoice and a form (at the same time it is necessary to be near and control his actions); - to read children's books, cheerful rhymes, humourous catchphrases, to sing to the kid of "pestushka"; - to play games where gesticulation, for example, "pat-a-cake" is necessary, "forty - a crow", finger-type games; - it is correct to speak, without distorting a word and not to lisp with the kid.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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