How does the speech development of children from 0 to 3 years?

Speech development of children is purely individual, but many parents ask the question: "Is everything normal for my child?" After all, in a playground children of the same age are strikingly different vocabulary and clarity of speech. How do you know if your baby's speech develops normally?

There are active and passive vocabulary of the child. The latter is formed already from birth - the infant remembers words and intonations, begins to understand their meaning. Later, an active dictionary is formed - the child begins to pronounce the words independently: first sounds, then words and phrases. At first it's just a repetition of sounds for adults, then conscious communication with them - the words become meaningful. Even one sound in a baby from 1 to 1.5 years can mean different emotions: for example, "A!", Said with different intonation, it means surprise, and discontent, and the question. By the way, it is in this period of time that the baby's vocabulary is almost not replenished. Speech development of children of preschool age is an intensive and very interesting process, however, each child has its own peculiarities.

One of the most important periods in the development of a baby's speech is the age from birth to three years. Briefly describe the speech development of children at this time:

• 2 months. Separate, spontaneous sounds addressed to the mother;
• 3 months. Long vowels - "ah-ah-ah," "uh-uh," "oh-oh-oh." Staggering, "cooing";
• 4 months. The walk begins to move into smooth chains of sounds, for example: "y-u-ah-ah-ah!";
• 5 months. Beginning of babbling, melodic walking, syllables and consonant sounds appear in speech;
• 6 months. Continues babbling ("yes-da-da", "ma-ma-ma"). Simulation of audible sounds, conducting "dialogue" with an adult;
• 7 months. The kid begins to understand the meaning of the words, babbling continues;
• 8 months. Appears echolalia - the child repeats the sounds, imitating the conversation of adults. Lepet turns into communication;
• 9 months. The complication of babbling and the appearance of the first two-syllable words "ma-ma", "ba-ba";
• 10-12 months. The number of understood words, new syllables increases. The first simple words "on" and the like, which can replace entire phrases. By the year the child easily imitates adults, hearing something new.

Anticipation or delay of speech development for 1-2 months at the age of up to a year does not play a special role.

Speech development of children in two years is different in that the child begins to correlate the picture with the object depicted on it and the word that indicates it (will show the ball, the tree, etc.). The child has his own "dictionary" - a set of words (often nouns) that he uses to tell you about his desires. Each child has this set, because he mostly consists of the names of those subjects that he encounters every day.

Features of speech development of children at the age of three years is a coherent character of speech, the appearance of sentences, which gradually become more complicated. There is an interrogative intonation, frequent repetition of words, the child can be confused - by the age of four this must pass. The vocabulary of the three-year-old is quite large - from one to fifteen hundred words. Adults who were invented at this age will laugh at children, for example, "flycat", etc.

The delay in the development of speech after three years is fraught with problems with reading, writing and thinking in the future, that is, a general delay in mental development. Therefore, if your baby is significantly behind the indicated rates, consult a specialist.