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Symptoms of disease - violation of the development of speech

Violations of speech is a fairly common occurrence among children, and adults.

If the child is in 2-2, 5 years, does not speak or say few words, it usually causes concern of their parents, and they go to the doctor.

Well, if the child tells a lot, but bad?" There are cases when the baby in 3-4 years, says so indistinctly that understand it can only mother. It happens that children at this age do not pronounce some sounds, replace some of the sounds of the other or they have broken rhythm and tempo of speech " they say choking, very quickly or, on the contrary, pulling words, etc. Such violations, as a rule, are of little importance to the parents, and they are inclined to explain it by the fact that «young children are generally hard to understand!»

Of course, in the early stages of the development of speech articulation of sounds for all children is not perfect: they distort, to reflect or replace many of the sounds. However, this can be considered the «norm» for the children not older than 2,5-3 years. If the defects articulation occurred in children older and are holding firm, you need to take steps to address them. When these defects and little children has expressed very strongly, on them it is necessary to pay attention - not they are associated with some disorder.

Currently, disorders of speech are well studied, and many of them are successfully cured. For a wide circle of parents detailed acquaintance with the region unlikely to have to, but have a General idea about it, apparently, will be useful. Parents, for example, should know, that is a deviation from the normal development of speech, which refers to its disorders. This will help them in time to see a specialist in disorders of speech, and the defect can be equalized quickly. Remember: the more stable character has become one violation or another speech, the more difficult it is to treat it.

We can distinguish four main types of voice disorders:
1. Violations of pronunciation.
2. Violations of rhythm and tempo of speech.
3. Disorders of speech, associated with hearing impairment.
4. Underdevelopment of speech, or loss of previously held a speech.

Many of the violations of speech may cause the occurrence of violations of the letter (dysgraphia) and reading (dyslexia).

Required volume of a child depends on the diagnosis. Some of the violations of speech disappear with age, some of them can be eliminated with little help of a speech therapist to work with the parents in the children's clinic or the regular pre-school institution. Children with the most severe speech disorders in need of long systematic assistance of a speech therapist in a speech groups of special kindergartens. The earlier You asked for the help of the speech therapist, the better will be held correctional work.

Signs of violations of speech development of children.

If by the end of:
- 1-month - baby never cries before feeding;
- 4-th month - not to smile when they talk;
- 5-th month - can't pronounce certain sounds or syllables (ha-ha, BA-BA), not trying to, while at the hands of, to search through the eyes of those articles, which he called (Where is Papa?');
- 7-th month - not trying to attract the attention of any certain sounds;
- 9-th month - can't repeat for adults eight different sound combinations and syllables;
- the 10-th of the month - may not waving his head in resignation or disagreement or wave goodbye to say goodbye;
- 12-month - could not utter a word, not listening to music is not able to perform the simplest requests (bring the ball);
- 15-th of the month - may not adequately use the word "mom" and "dad";
- 20-month - can't say 6 sensible words;
- 23-month - can't show the part of the body, which he calls adult;
- 29-th of the month - does not understand the difference between the words "big" and "small";
- 36-th of the month - may not show, what is the line of 3 the longest;
- 37-th month - can't answer the question, what's his name and surname.

Which diseases there is violation of the development of speech

Reasons for the lag in the development of speech can be a pathology of pregnancy and childbirth, violations of the functions of articulatory the machine, the defeat of the organ of hearing, General retardation in mental development of the child, the influence of heredity and the adverse social factors (lack of communication and education). Difficulties in the development of speech are also characteristic of children with signs of a lag in physical development, who at an early age severe disease, a weakened receiving malnutrition.
Hearing disorders are a common cause of isolated delays in speech development. It is known that even moderately expressed and gradually developing hearing loss can lead to a delay in speech development. Among the signs of decrease in hearing the baby - lack of reaction to the audio signals, the inability to imitate the sounds, and the child is older excessive use of gestures and close monitoring of the movements of the lips speaking people. However, the evaluation of hearing impairment on the basis of the study of behavioral reactions of the insufficient and is subjective. Therefore, if you suspect a partial or complete loss of hearing a child with isolated delayed development of speech should be held audiological study. Reliable results also provides a method of registration of auditory evoked potentials. The sooner will be free of defects in hearing, the faster it will be possible to start the appropriate corrective work with the child or to provide him with a hearing aid.
Less than delay the development of speech is connected to the presence of the child have autism or a General gap in mental development. In such cases shown in-depth neuro-psychiatric examination.

Which doctor should I contact if there is a violation of the development of speech

• Pediatrician
• Speech therapist
• Psychologist
• Teacher

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