Why can’t the baby still speak at one and a half years old?

When babies are learning language, they need a good environment and correct guidance. However, some parents are not aware of this, so they keep their babies silent as a sign of resistance.

1. Talk to the baby more

Some parents rarely talk to their children. They always think that the baby is too young and cannot understand when talking to them, so they always let their children sing one-man shows. . These parents may not know that the baby's brain cells are formed by repeated impressions from the stimulation received, seen, and heard in the growing environment. Brain cells also grow due to these stimulations, and these stimulations directly affect the child's language development. There are several processes in language development. One is the child's pronunciation stage, the second is the language understanding stage, and the third is the language expression stage. After the baby is born, the baby's pronunciation can be trained and guided. Parents should constantly communicate with their children to keep the language information in their children's minds.

Therefore, for newborn babies, parents should also provide a rich language environment and sufficient language stimulation. For example, you should talk to your child when changing his diaper, bathing him, feeding him, playing with him, sleeping, and waking up. There is no need for too much language, the emphasis is on accumulation. A few simple words and sentences will become the cornerstone of children's language development and lay the foundation for deepening the relationship between children and parents.

2. Encourage the baby to speak more

Children cannot speak yet and can only use movements or eyes to express certain needs. If parents see their children reaching for the cup, they will quickly give them water; if the children point to the fruit with their fingers, the parents will immediately satisfy their needs... This kind of life has been long, and the children can open their mouths for food and stretch out their hands for clothes. You will feel: If I don’t speak, everything will be satisfied, so why should I speak? Yes, this behavior of parents makes the children lose their desire to talk to others and the motivation to speak, and eventually use their body language instead of spoken language to interact with others.

Nowadays, there are many families like this, especially those with children raised by the elderly. Another reason why children start speaking late is that parents do not know how to give their children language stimulation that is suitable for their abilities. For example, when teaching a child to speak, it is not through concrete, vivid, colorful objects that are often encountered in life, but when the child is over one year old, some pictures and written texts are shown to the child. When children are learning language, they need direct, vivid, and vivid stimulation. The vocabulary in books is abstract, and the children's acceptance effect will be poor, so the speed of learning to speak will be very slow. When a child wants something, you should tell him the name of the thing he wants, and also tell him the characteristics of the thing, such as: apple, red... After doing this a few times, at least he will say "fruit". Therefore, we must give the child a language environment, listening stimulation and opportunities to speak, so that the child's language will develop quickly.

It should be noted that teaching children to speak also has a goal, otherwise haste will make waste. This positioning is: teaching children to speak should slightly exceed the child's actual language expression ability, and this ability must be completed with the help of adults. For example, if a child can speak one word, it is best for parents to teach two words. If a child can speak two words, parents should teach three words. Only in this way can the child's language ability be greatly improved. If a child can only speak one word and parents teach phrases or sentences, nothing is taught.

3. Don’t let your baby be confused.

Some families now have multiple languages ??or dialects. The confusion of languages ??or dialects is also a reason why children don’t speak. In the family environment, the husband and wife sometimes speak dialects and sometimes speak Mandarin. In addition, the nanny frequently changes, and the nanny's dialect will stimulate the child's brain cells. This stimulation process is not in line with the child's language ability, and ultimately leads to the child being indecisive about language and not knowing which language to choose.

4. Don’t force your baby to speak.

Children’s language expression ability is still very poor. In order to help their children learn to speak, parents sometimes use the “force” method. For example, if a child wants something, and the parent threatens the child with the object, the child will not give it if he does not speak. This will cause the child to have an aversion to speaking. Especially when children start to speak later than babies of the same age, parents often use the trump card of "forced talk" to coerce and induce their children to talk. Children must first understand language before they can express it. This is a process. If you push too hard, the child will feel a lot of pressure to speak.

Children can only resist this kind of pressure by remaining silent.

Carry out listening and speaking training

Children learn to speak from listening and speaking. For young children, an environment for listening and speaking must be provided at any time. The simplest way is to talk about what you are doing at any time. For example, if you are washing clothes, you can say to your child: "Mom is washing clothes for Dad." If you are reading a book, you can say: "Mom is reading a book. The baby has grown up." You can also talk about what the child is doing. For example, the child is eating an apple. Is it delicious? The child is playing with toys. You can say: The child is playing with building blocks. "Be good." The role of this language environment is to develop children's "listening-speaking system." When children interact with adults, based on the initial spontaneous pronunciation and the process of sight, hearing, and touch, through life activities and games, children will imitate the adult's intonation and intonation, that is, they will learn to speak.

When training children's obedience, parents can use slower and repetitive words to speak to their children at the right time, which will help the children understand and imitate their parents' words, which is very beneficial to the early language development of young children. . Parents must make accurate and clear pronunciation when speaking, because the language habits and pronunciation characteristics that children have developed since childhood are difficult to correct in the future. They must use language in a standardized way from an early age to lay the foundation for future oral expression.

Let children learn language in a playful way

Living in a monotonous environment is detrimental to children’s language development. It is necessary to create different living environments so that children can see and hear more. Only then do we have "material" to talk about. For example, children in kindergarten often cannot tell the difference between the shoes of their left and right feet. If the teacher simply tells them that this is the left shoe and that is the right shoe, no matter how much the teacher talks, the child may still not be able to tell the difference. At this time, the teacher can make up a fun little story: "Children, look at so-and-so's two shoes facing back, and they are all angry. Why are they unhappy? Because they are saying: 'Put us on' Wrong, we need to face each other'". Then, the teacher helps the child to exchange the two wrong shoes, and then says: "Look, the two good friends are nodding and smiling face to face. Why are they so happy? Because they are wearing the right shoes." The teacher can also add a pair of shoes. A cartoon of an angry pair of shoes and a cartoon of a smiling pair of shoes allow children to watch and talk at the same time. In this way, the child will not only be able to distinguish the left and right shoes quickly, but will also use such interesting language to talk to children who wear the wrong shoes in the future.

Using childlike language to talk to children often produces unexpected results. For example, some children play dirty and refuse to wash themselves, so you can say this to the child. The baby's little hands are saying: "I was so clean in the morning, but now I am so dirty. I am really sad." The baby's little face is saying : "I feel so uncomfortable. I hope I can become fragrant soon." The little feet are also saying: "I am also very sad. I really want to rest comfortably for a while." The baby decides which one to wash first. Where is the place? After hearing this, the child was not only very happy to wash it, but also said after washing it: "My little face smells delicious, my little hands are clean, and my little feet are so comfortable!"

Of course, As children grow older, adults should adopt corresponding conversation methods to communicate with children, otherwise the child's language level will stay at the childish low level.