Meanwhile, not all children develop according to the norms. Today, there is often a situation where a child does not speak at all in 3 years, but only speaks with gestures. Naturally, parents in this situation are very worried and try to force the baby to speak in all possible ways. In this article, we will try to understand what causes can contribute to the fact that the child does not speak at 3 years.
Why does a 3-year-old child not talk?
To answer the question, why the child does not speak at 3 years, can be in different ways. Most often this is facilitated by the following factors:
- Various hearing disorders. If the crumb does not hear well, it will accordingly be poorly understood by the speech of mom and dad. Today, from the very birth of the baby, you can go through a special audiological test that will determine if your child has hearing problems. In case of finding deviations, such babies are observed in the audiologist.
- Sometimes the problems of speech development are connected with heredity. If the parents spoke late enough, then the child is likely to be somewhat behind. Meanwhile, at the age of 3 years, heredity can not be the sole cause of total absence of speech.
The most frequent delay in speech development is prematurity, hypoxia, various birth trauma, and severe illnesses borne in infancy. - Finally, sometimes parents cause their speech to be underdeveloped. With a crumb we must constantly talk, sing songs to him, read poems and fairy tales. Do not instantly respond to the child's gestures, always ask him to explain his desires with words. And, finally, pay attention to the development of fine motor skills of hands - buy puzzles , mosaics, prefabricated beads and other similar toys, and often play with crumbs in finger games.