Many parents don’t know how to prevent their children’s language development delay, and they don’t know how to deal with it. In order to help parents avoid detours and gain more valuable time for their children's language rehabilitation, the Sunshine Language Correction Center provides popular science on relevant knowledge for everyone in installments. I hope parents can benefit and help their children recover as soon as possible.
Is there any relationship between age, gestational age and language development delay?
Language developmental delay is affected by both congenital factors and is related to the acquired environment, which often affect children's neuropsychological development at the same time.
Premature infants language combined with other problems account for a significantly higher proportion than full-term children, indicating that premature infants are more likely to have multiple developmental problems. It may be because premature babies are inadequate in development and the nervous system is immature. Under the influence of adverse external stimuli, the nervous system is vulnerable to damage and lead to various developmental abnormalities.
Does the characteristics of language development delay different at different ages?
As children grow older, the proportion of pure language backward gradually decreases. On the contrary, the proportion of language combined with other developmental problems increases significantly. After 2 years of age, the development quotient in the four energy regions of Gesell is abnormal, among which the verbal energy development quotient is the lowest. It shows that language problems at the age of 2 are the most prominent among various developmental problems. It is easy to attract parents' attention and is the main factor that encourages parents to seek medical treatment. Although language problems were first discovered, language problems after the age of 2 were more of a manifestation of other developmental disorders than simply language problems. Early detection of children with language delays can earn time for early intervention. Language developmental delays may further develop into language disorders or learning difficulties, resulting in increased risk of cognitive, literate, behavioral and mental problems.
Does different ages affect the intervention results of language development delay?
If early detection and active intervention is carried out, it will greatly reduce the negative effects of language development abnormalities on children in the short and long term. There are large differences in the number of patients who visit each age, with the largest number of children aged 2 to 3 years old. The outbreak of children's language occurs between 16 and 18 months, and the average vocabulary of children soared from 7 to 40. Due to differences in vocabulary, there will be significant differences in language expression between children with normal development and children with delayed language development. Therefore, parents usually find that children's language lags behind children of the same age when they are around 2 years old.
Before this age, children's language problems were easily ignored by parents because the vocabulary mastered by children before the age of 2 did not show explosive growth. The difference in language expression between normal-developed children and children with abnormal language development was not very obvious, but the differences in language comprehension actually existed long ago. Because parents have limited sensitivity to children's language comprehension ability, it is often difficult to find children's language problems at this stage, especially mild language comprehension.
Two key points for rehabilitation of language development delay:
There are two important aspects of language development, namely language understanding and language expression, and language understanding precedes language expression and is an important indicator of early language development. Before language expression is imperfect, the understanding of language is displayed through pronunciation, expressions, movements, body language, eyes, etc.
How to identify these language symbols early requires pediatric and child care professionals to skillfully use various screening and evaluation tools, such as the "Infant Language Development Screening Scale" commonly used by the Sunshine Language Correction Center and the early warning signs of children's psychological health care technical specifications. At the same time, we must also master the laws of children's language development, especially the development milestones in language comprehension.
Family is the main place for infant and young children's communication activities, and parents are often the first person to find problems. Therefore, while improving their own technical level, professionals should pay more attention to strengthening health education and guide parents to learn some characteristic manifestations of early language comprehension, so as to detect language development delays in early stages and gain time for early intervention.
To sum up, strengthen pregnancy health care and prevent premature birth; around 2 years old is the key age for discovering language development delays. Pay attention to language development screening around 2 years old to detect language development delays in early detection, and implement early, scientific and comprehensive interventions based on comprehensive evaluation to promote the most suitable development of children with language, cognition, social emotions, etc.
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