When the baby 16 months old, the child will call mom, and everyone's hanging heart can be put down. Unexpectedly, more than a year has passed, and the baby's language ability still stays at that time. Mother said regretfully: Maybe we didn't do something in language education, which led to the baby's speech ability not improving.
The problems of this family are not unique. They are common among children with language retardation. Parents may not realize their children's backwardness when their babies live at home for a long time. But compared with other children, their baby's backwardness is reflected.
Even many novice parents know that there is a thing called language retardation, but their understanding of it only stays at the language level. In addition, it is generally believed that language is a gift of human beings and can be learned without deliberately educating children, so language delay is ignored by parents.
But what many people don't know is that language retardation is not a simple language problem, and its harm is more reflected in all levels of children's development, such as backwardness in cognition, intelligence, socialization, sports and learning. These backward aspects will sometimes be reflected in the next few years, and families who only see the immediate problems will naturally ignore them.
Cognition is the first problem.
Cognition is a baby's ability to acquire and apply knowledge. Insufficient cognitive ability will lead to many problems, such as low self-cognition, memory, imagination, thinking and other abilities related to experience acquisition and learning. In other words, children with low cognitive ability will lack the ability to acquire knowledge and experience from the outside world, digest and use knowledge.
What happens if children can't acquire and use knowledge? In the eyes of outsiders, children will become stupid and the development of the brain will stagnate. This is also the reason why many children who talk late have poor academic performance after entering school. In detail, children's literacy, calculation, reading and recitation will be affected.
Fine movements are the second problem.
Many parents know much more about sensory training than language knowledge, because the disharmony of body movements is the easiest to find, and children's physical coordination disorder, structural and spatial perception disorder and vestibular balance dysfunction are more common. However, many children with language retardation are also sent to training by their parents, which is an unreasonable choice.
Language retardation is mostly related to the lack of fine motor skills. Unless it is a serious language delay, that is, a pedigree disorder, there is no need for children to receive sensory integration training. For children with language retardation, fine motor training is enough and can be carried out at home.
Socialization is the third problem.
Social adaptability is easily ignored by parents, and the ability of independent life, self-management and collective life of children with language retardation will show some backwardness. Although it has not reached the point of being unable to take care of itself, it will show a low cognitive and adaptive ability to oneself and others in life.
Many children who are late are not without social desire. On the contrary, their social desire is stronger than that of many healthy children. The backward development of language expression and understanding ability directly leads to other children's low evaluation of their children, thus adopting a distant attitude. In the eyes of children, the language and behavior of children with language retardation are somewhat unreasonable.
These are three common problems of children with language barriers. Language is the first of human eight intelligent, and it is also closely related to the other seven kinds of intelligence. In short, these eight intelligences are all related to the baby's brain development. Surprisingly, all children whose language ability is not good enough will have the other seven mental defects to varying degrees.
When a child's language development lags far behind his peers, his self-cognitive intelligence and natural cognitive intelligence are first unqualified, followed by spatial intelligence and body movement intelligence related to sensory integration, until the general decline of mathematical logic intelligence and interpersonal intelligence after school, and finally the lack of musical intelligence related to abstract art.
Judging from the current research results, the argument that "the harm of language delay is not limited to the language level" has long been widely recognized by the medical community, and many survey data and clinical experiments have directly proved this view. However, many parents still do not understand the meaning of this sentence.
If you are not sure about your child's symptoms, I suggest you go to the hospital early to give your child a comprehensive examination and follow the doctor's advice and guidance. If you feel overwhelmed, you can also go to a language correction institution to sign up for a language course, which is almost the only training program that can restore your child's language ability.