How to recognize and support solutions for children with speech delay

Signs of early detection in children slow to speak

According to Dr. Dinh Thac – Head of Psychology Department of Children’s Hospital 1 (Ho Chi Minh City), many parents often realize that their children are late to speak. So to miss the golden period of language intervention to help children.

As soon as children are 3, 4 months old, parents need to observe signs of language development

Dr. Alexander, Children’s Hospital Alberta, Canada has suggested milestones, parents can identify whether their child’s language development is having difficulty or not as follows:

• 1 – 6 months old: unresponsive to parent’s voice

• 6 – 9 months old: doesn’t say unclear words often

• 10 – 11 months old: doesn’t imitate sounds like “baba, grandma”

• 12 months old: do not say “daddy, grandma” for the purpose of calling relatives; do not often imitate words with two and three syllables

• 13 – 15 months old: does not speak at least 4 – 7 words; Strangers cannot understand 20% of what children say.

• 16 – 18 months old: does not speak at least 10 words; Strangers cannot understand 25% of what a child says.

• 19 – 21 months old: does not speak at least 20 words; Strangers cannot understand 50% of what children say.

• 22 – 24 months old: does not speak at least 50 words; not knowing how to use two-word phrases; Strangers cannot understand 60% of what children say.

• 2 – 2.5 years old: cannot speak about 400 words, including naming, speaking in two – three word phrases; use pronouns; Strangers cannot understand 75% of what children say.

• From 2.5 – 3 years old: do not know how to use plural and past tense; have not counted 1 to 3 correctly; have not used 3-5 words/sentence; Strangers cannot understand 90% of what children say.

• 3 – 4 years old: can’t use 3-6 words/sentence; don’t know how to ask questions, chat, link facts, tell stories.

• 4 -5 years old: not yet able to use 6-8 words/sentence; do not know the exact names of four colors; did not count correctly from 1-10.

From 2-3 years old and under is the golden period to support intervention for children with speech delay

If the delay in speech lasts for a long time, it will affect the child’s intellect, psycho-psychology: children often have antagonistic behaviors, tantrums, fussiness, some of which can lead to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Notably, children with delayed speech, if not supported early, can affect their language ability, intelligence, social skills when they reach adulthood, and even face many difficulties in related activities. future career….

Methods to help children with delayed speech turn on and communicate

From the above fact, talking to PV, Dr. Dinh Thac said that parents need to increase communication and positive interaction to stimulate children to turn on the sound. Active communication time is the time when you entertain, surprise, react, engage, and understand what you are communicating.

For example: If you spend 10 minutes just reading to your child without caring about the child’s participation, it is still counted as 0, but just 2 minutes if you make the child interested in looking at the book and willing to turn the page, that is 2 minutes. .

In addition to positive communication, nutrition plays a very important role in children’s language development. Dr. Dinh Thac said that there are two factors that directly affect the rate of language development of children: that is the process of forming functional areas of language and increasing neural connections.

Dr. Dinh Thac said that the child’s language development speed is directly related to the child’s brain development.

In addition to providing a full range of 4 groups of basic food ingredients such as: carbohydrates, protein, fat, fiber, vitamins and minerals, plant-based omegas play a very important role in brain development. set. This substance activates the brain to work effectively because it stimulates neurotransmitters. When there is an impact on the brain, it will transmit to the target organ. When they hear, children will imitate, pay attention and turn out voices in the pronunciation part.

Nutrition plays an important role in children’s language development.

BS.CKII Do Thi Ngoc Diep – Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City Food and Nutrition Association said: People liken omega as the bricks that build the human brain. Therefore, children are provided with enough omega fatty acids, which are very important for brain development and language development.

There are two sources of Omega: Plant Omega and Animal Omega. The outstanding advantage of plant omegas is that they contain ALA components that animal omegas do not have. ALA is very good for nerve conduction, increasing the ability to remember, focus, remember, pay attention, learn better.

In particular, ALA has an anti-inflammatory and cell-protective role. But brain cells are very vulnerable, so they need to be protected. After birth, our brain has 100 billion neurons. But brain cells don’t increase in number, they just die. Therefore, the protective role of ALA in brain cells is extremely important.

In addition, plant-based Omega has no taste and is not fishy, ​​so children right from birth can drink it without irritation or vomiting.

In addition, the ingredients of Plant Omega are carefully monitored from planting to harvesting to ensure a clean, safe source of organic raw materials, without soil and water pollution, and without the use of food preservatives. materials, pesticides, not contaminated with heavy metals such as lead, mercury.

In particular, most plants contain natural sources of vitamin E, but in animals, vitamin E sources are almost absent. Vitamin E helps Omega not to degrade.

Experts recommend detecting speech delay before the age of 3 for effective intervention. Parents need to spend time interacting actively with their children, adjusting their scientific nutrition so that their children can develop in a healthy and comprehensive way.