The strong concern caused by what their child did not begin to tell yet seizes many parents. As a rule, these fears are groundless as once the kid becomes the active participant of quite intelligent dialogues.
Remember that the uniform age indicator for emergence of the speech of the child does not exist. This phenomenon has individual character, and is not terrible at all if the nine-month son of the girlfriend calls the relatives expressive "ма" for a long time, "pas", "oh", and your one-year-old kid persistently is silent. It is considered norm if the child at one-year-old age pronounces several words - from two to ten. But very often kids up to two years say a little, operating in communication with relatives with babble, and even prefer to be silent. The speech development in children has two components: active, or pronouncing words and offers, and passive – understanding of words. It is physiologically caused so that the passive speech develops much quicker. Therefore, if your kid listens to you with apparent interest, quickly understands everything that you tell him and also satisfies the simple requests turned to it, you have no occasions to worry as speech development of the child proceeds normally. Even if the child persistently is silent to two-year age, it does not mean presence at it of the guaranteed problems with the speech in the future. Very much often such children begin to talk unexpectedly, and the long offers which at once are correctly constructed. Besides it is noticed that "taciturn persons" utter words often more accurately, than the peers who early started talking also overtake them in speech development. However if you are disturbed after all by a problem of silence of your kid, you can help it to exorcise quicker. Useful exercise is regard with the child of the objects surrounding you and commenting of what you see. For example: "Watch what beautiful pussycat! What fluffy tail at it! And what sticking-out ears!", etc. Accompany the and actions of the child with comments more often, you ask the kid to bring you some certain toy or to carry out another a task, feasible for it. Read together with children of the fairy tale and verses, make pauses, inducing the kid most to finish well familiar rhymed line. Good help in a speech development of the child are finger-type games, for example, "Soroka-beloboka", "Fingers in the forest", etc. Consider also the fact that the speech which is heard by the child from the TV or the computer does not help with speech development and often gives boomerang effect. It is worth showing serious concern in case the kid at the age of three years cannot express the feelings and requirements distinct simple sentences, and only the closest are capable to understand his babble. In such situation it is necessary to address for consultation the expert.