Helping your child with speech and language development

Helping Your Child With Speech And Language Development

Parents and other caregivers can do many things to encourage speech and language development and provide learning opportunities.

Helping Your Child With Speech And Language Development

Speech and language skills develop at varying rates for children. Still, there are certain milestones most children reach at specific ages. Common, everyday interaction between children and those around them is the best way to boost and enhance speech and language skills. From birth, hearing is critical for children to learn and react to the world around them. An unidentified hearing loss can cause a delay in speech and language development. Consequently, it is better to identify and treat hearing loss as soon as possible.

Parents and other caregivers can do many things to encourage speech and language development and provide learning opportunities. Some examples:

• Listen and respond to your child. Acknowledge, encourage, and praise attempts to communicate.

• Talk to your child about what you are doing, what you see, what your child is doing, and what your child sees. Use language that is appropriate for your child's speech

 

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