The first month of a baby's life is a time that passes almost imperceptibly for young parents. A lot of new baby care worries consume most of the time. But now the second month has gone - and now the baby requires not only timely care and feeding procedures, but also actively develops. Among the achievements of the crumbs can be a smile, the ability to hold his head (albeit for only a few seconds so far), and how happy and proud the parents are when their child begins to coo!
Baby starts talking
Starting to make the first sounds, the child tries to attract the attention of his parents, moves his arms and legs, smiles. Many of today's parents try to carefully ensure that all stages of the development of the baby take place on time. This is a very good sign when mental and emotional development corresponds to age norms. And if the baby is a little late, attentive parents will be able to help in a timely manner.If you try to describe the baby’s cooing, it looks something like this: a variety of “o”, “y”, “a” and combinations of these sounds, pronounced either drawlingly, then sharply, then softly, while the baby alternates sounds, tries different options. Then such sounds will form into syllables and into whole words.
Babies' needs are minimal. If a child is well-fed, dry and well-rested, nothing hurts, he will be active and friendly, ready to communicate. That's when the "monologues" begin. If at this time you try to “talk” with the child, making similar sounds, in most cases he begins to listen, and response vocalizations can become more complicated - this stimulates the development of the speech apparatus quite well.
Parents usually try to make sure that the child develops in accordance with generally accepted norms. Some try to slightly spur certain moments and devote a lot of time to activities with the baby.
How can parents stimulate the desire to communicate with the baby?
Attentive parents can and should create conditions for communication to the child - satisfying his needs in time, stimulating a good mood. As a response, the first cooing appears, which is very important to encourage: to pronounce sounds after the child, as well as syllables, simple words, to encourage the baby to “answer”.You can try such an exercise as pronouncing words, sounds with enhanced articulation. After a while, the baby tries to focus on these sounds, listen, and then imitate.
Doing small exercises will help your baby learn a new skill faster.
To the question of when the child begins to gurgle, you can answer this way - in the period from 2 to 4 months. By about 6, the sounds he utters will become more complex and turn into syllables. And each of these stages in the development of the baby is interesting in its own way.
The appearance of a long-awaited baby is a joy for young parents. However, there are still many happy moments, successes, worries and worries ahead.
The newborn will not begin to pronounce the words in full soon, but the first sounds will be heard by the parents in a few months.
Many mothers look forward to this moment. So, when does a newborn start to hoot?
When to expect the first sounds
During the first month, the baby only cries and groans. Parents will not hear other sounds from the newborn. Crying is the first stage in the development of speech. If you listen carefully, you will hear different shades of vowels in the cry. The cry of pain will sound more drawn out, and similar to the letter "O". The cry of joy and pleasure about meeting with your mother is similar to the letter "A".
At the beginning of the second month, the baby begins to try his voice.
During this period, the baby pronounces simple vowels: “e”, “y”, “a”, “o”, “I”, “wa”. Parents hear not individual letters, but humming. It turns out this is due to the guttural pronunciation.
Initially, the baby hums with pleasure in complete silence or when he sees a familiar face. The humming is an important period in the acquisition of speech, which must be maintained and developed.
At a doctor's appointment at 1 month old, you will definitely be asked what sounds your child makes, how often he gurgles. Do not be confused and answer as you hear your child.
The cooing stage is short, and lasts 3-4 weeks. The humming coincides with the general level of development of hearing and vision, the development of the vocal apparatus.
The baby can follow the sources of various sounds for a long time, and then try to reproduce them.
Gradually, the child begins to apply his skill to communicate with others.
How is cooing different from cooing?
Cooing is the predominance of vowel sounds in a child's speech, and cooing is a more complex speech form that appears at about 1.5 months.
Consonants begin to appear in sounds: k, g, x and their combinations with vowels: agu, ky, khy, gu.
The cooing stage lasts up to four to five months. Sometimes cooing occurs spontaneously in a child, most often when looking at toys. But gradually, the child begins to walk in response to the communication or smile of an adult and loved one.
The child begins to communicate, which is an important indicator of the correct and timely development of the child. The peak of cooing is three months.
This is the age when your camera or camcorder should always be at hand to capture the wonderful songs of a beloved baby.
Often, a newborn begins to walk to a certain song, as if singing along.
The baby tries to pronounce the first syllables at 4-5 months of life. It all starts with labial sounds: "b", "m", "p". Gradually acquired skill will be improved and practiced.
As a result, the baby will begin to express his desires and emotions in separate syllables. After some time, baby talk will form from the sounds.
By 12 months, the child will begin to pronounce separate words that consist of the same syllables: “mother”, “woman”, “dad”, and so on. How many months the child will start to coo, depends on the parents.
Learning to talk
For many, humming may seem like simple fun. However, this is where the formation of speech begins. Of course, it is impossible to specifically teach a child to hum. But if you want, you can speed up the process.
This will allow the newborn to learn quickly and without any problems to communicate with the outside world. How to teach a child to hum?
- More communication with the baby.
From this begins the perception of sounds and concentration of attention. Each action of the mother should be accompanied by comments and explanations. Parents should tell their child what they are doing.
Talking to the child should be while bathing, swaddling, breastfeeding and morning toilet. At the same time, the speech of the mother should always be affectionate and tender, without sharp outbursts of emotions.
- Adding new vowels.
If the baby began to hum, then you can help him develop his skill. To do this, the mother should repeat the spoken sounds after the baby, while adding new ones.
You need to start with simple vowels and consonants. Children love to imitate adults. The newborn will try to repeat after the mother.
- You should start with a palm massage.
In addition, you can interest the child in finger games. They allow the child to develop fine motor skills.
If the newborn does not coo
Many parents start to panic if a month after the birth of their child does not coo. It should be noted that a newborn is a living organism, and it takes some time to develop a certain skill.
In this case, much depends on the temperament of the baby. Some children begin to produce the first vowels as early as the third week of life, and some are silent by nature, only 8 weeks after birth.
There are situations when a child starts to coo, but after a while he fell silent. It's quite normal.
Perhaps the baby is preparing to learn new syllables. The cooing resumes after a while, but there are some changes in it. The newborn begins to squeal, squeak and laugh.
The humming may also stop due to external factors. This happens with children who do not feel well or have experienced stress. They find it difficult to communicate with others.
What to do if the child does not hoot?
If speech has not recovered within 8 months, then the baby should be shown to the pediatrician.
Perhaps the baby has a neurological disorder.
Do not rule out hearing aid problems. A specialist in a narrow profile will help to establish the causes of delayed speech development: an otolaryngologist or a neurologist.
In conclusion
Now you know what time children start humming. The first sounds are very important for the further development of speech. If the child refuses to hum, then you can push him to this.
Parents should spend more time with their baby and closely monitor his development. If the baby began to hum and smile with pleasure when he saw familiar faces, then these are sure signs of normal development.
At such moments, parents should not react violently. This may scare the baby. In order for the baby to develop normally and try new sounds, it is worth surrounding him with affection and tenderness.
Stages of development of children's speech
You have a baby. The happiness of parents cannot be overshadowed by any difficulties and problems that, of course, confront them. In the first days of life, a newborn, with the help of adults, adapts to existence in a new world. It turns out that the child already knows something: he sucks, swallows, blinks and screams louder, then quieter. This cry is a reflex, with its help a small person tries to express his feelings, that is, to show that he is in pain, uncomfortable or hungry. Basically, the cry consists of sounds similar to vowels. A healthy child screams loudly, cleanly, while inhaling briefly, but exhaling is long. Listen to the cry of a newborn: an alarm symptom may be a too high-pitched or very quiet cry, weak sobs instead of a cry, or no cry at all. In some cases, these signs indicate an organic lesion of the brain, which can cause various speech disorders.
And already from one and a half to two months, the child smiles at you, and at everyone who bends over the crib or stroller and communicates with him.
From about two months old, the child begins to hum, that is, it primitively hums. The cry becomes more expressive - intonations appear in it. For example, crying because of wet diapers is different from crying when the baby is hungry. But if the cry is monotonous, this may be a sign of some kind of pathology of the central nervous system.
At three months, a healthy baby stops grunting and starts to gurgle when you talk to him and smile at him. Of course, the baby walks alone, but in the presence of adults he does it much more willingly and more actively. Let the baby roam, because this is a training of voice, speech breathing, auditory memory. In the process of cooing, breathing, voice, movements of the organs of the oral cavity are trained.
At three or four months, the baby is already laughing. With the help of laughter, he expresses his emotional attitude to those with whom he communicates, to the world around him, to his feelings.
Be attentive and listen to all the sounds that the baby makes. Emotional communication between an adult and a child is extremely important already at the first stages of a child’s development. Try to talk to your child more often, and with different intonation, voice all your actions.
Especially important for the full development of the baby and in particular for the development of his speech, is feeding. During feeding, a positive emotional contact is established between mother and child, which stimulates both the social and psychoverbal development of the child. During breastfeeding, the baby's articulatory organs are trained - lips, tongue, soft palate. It is these organs that are responsible for the pronunciation of speech sounds.
The more you communicate with the child, the more actively he seeks to communicate with you. Each of your conversations with the baby is a stimulation of auditory attention, auditory and speech memory, activation of voice reactions.
From four to five months, the baby begins to babble. Get ready for the fact that the baby will babble for up to seven months. Farewell, vowel chains! Hello, the first harbingers of consonants! The oral cavity increases in volume, which means that the tongue can move more actively, and the child can pronounce consonants. The consonants "b", "p", "m", "l" appear first, which are pronounced with the help of lips and tongue. But keep in mind, while the baby makes sounds involuntarily, moreover, children of different nationalities at this age pronounce the same sounds, regardless of what language they will speak in the future. But deaf children do not babble, the sound reactions that appeared in them earlier gradually fade away.
At the age of six to twelve months, the child begins to repeat the same syllables (BA-BA, MA-MA, PA-PA) and tries to control the pronunciation of sounds. The kid plays with sounds, and at the same time trains the speech and auditory apparatus.
New sounds gradually appear: “g”, “k”, “d”, “t”. The child babbles more actively when you communicate with him, tries to listen to what you say, wants to attract attention with his voice - in general, he tries to become your interlocutor. This desire should definitely be encouraged. Little by little, more and more syllables appear in the child's arsenal, and they become more diverse. By the age of one, most children move on to babble words, and some use pseudo words, that is, words without a specific meaning. With the help of these words, the baby tries to play and communicate with you - and you must find time and energy for this. Playing with a child should not turn into serving a duty. You should enjoy communicating with the baby!
On a note!
The game contributes to the development of not only speech, but also the personality of the child: the baby actively explores the world around him, his thinking, attention, memory, and emotional perception develop. If the baby does not play, does not follow verbal instructions, if he has a poor babbling vocabulary or he does not babble at all. This may be due to speech disorders or diseases of the central nervous system or brain.
The vocabulary of a one-year-old child is from seven to fifteen words, and the baby mostly uses completely simple words: “dad”, “mom”, “give”, etc. It’s not scary if some sounds from a simple set (“a”, “y”, “i”, “m”, “n”, “p”, “b”, “t”, “d”, “k”, “g”) your baby does not pronounce quite clearly, but some some of them are completely absent in his speech. Remember: in the first year of life, the baby is just getting ready to learn speech.
When a child turns one year old, this is a significant milestone for parents. The kid every day more and more actively imitates the speech of mom and dad, every day he understands you better and better. However, sometimes he calls different actions and objects with the same word. Moreover, understanding is ahead of vocabulary, that is, the child knows much more words than he can pronounce.
After a year, words-sentences appear in the child's speech, denoting different phenomena, depending on the situation. For example, the word “drink” can mean a request for a cup, juice, etc. And from the age of one and a half, the baby uses sentences consisting of two words: “I want to lie” - “I want to walk.” When the child’s vocabulary reaches an average of 50 words, the number of phrases immediately increases. However, in most cases, the baby builds phrases incorrectly, without prepositions and conjunctions, and some sentences are difficult to understand.
By the end of the second year of life, the baby's active vocabulary (the words he uses) is already 250-300 words. His speech contains the most nouns denoting the names of toys and surrounding household items. Verbs come next after nouns, and adjectives come last, but gradually their number will increase. Remember that the volume of a child’s vocabulary and the quality of his speech as a whole largely depend on how adults communicate with him, what words they use, whether they find time to talk and play with the baby, listen and understand him. Vowels “a ”, “and”, “oh”, “y” your two-year-old child pronounces correctly, but there are problems with the sound “s”, the sound “e” can also cause difficulties. Children replace some complex sounds with simpler ones, soften hard “t ”, “d”, “s”, “z”, but such “difficult” sounds as “w”, “g”, “l”, “r” are generally ignored. For example, a baby says “dinya” instead of “melon”, “apka” instead of “paw”, “yba” instead of “fish”. This only says that the child's articulatory apparatus is still being formed and is not yet able to cope with more difficult tasks. That's why the baby simplifies some words: shortens them or removes "uncomfortable" syllables or sounds from them. The voice and speech breathing of the baby is not yet very well developed, that is, the exhalation is not long enough, weak. The child is already trying to use different intonations, his speech becomes more expressive.
In the third year of life, the child better understands the speech addressed to him. He communicates more actively with adults, begins to understand simple questions and asks them to those around him, first of all to you, dear parents. Now the baby is able to follow fairly complex verbal instructions.
If you show a child pictures that show objects and toys familiar to him, he will not only recognize them, but also name them. Sometimes the baby calls the actions that the object produces - "The car is driving." There are more and more phrases, although they are not always built correctly, but the child distinguishes between the present and the past tense. Every day the phrases become more complicated: now they consist of several words, so a three-year-old child can already tell you about what he saw, what happened to him, what he learned new, what surprised or frightened him.
It's time to tell the baby fairy tales - not very complicated ones, of course. If you ask a question about the content of a fairy tale, the child will be able to answer it, especially if the magical story resonates with events and phenomena known to him. And if there are repetitions in the fairy tale, the kid will continue the phrase with pleasure, although a detailed retelling will not work yet.
The child's vocabulary is also growing - there are already about 1000 words in it, and there are much more verbs. In addition, the baby begins to use prepositions, pronouns, adjectives in speech. There are no so far only participles, numerals and participles.
Many children at this age talk incessantly. Listening to the baby, you can notice that in his speech there are practically no collective nouns (clothes, birds, etc.), words-names predominate, and the simplified words that were used last year are gradually falling out of use. The process of word creation is in full swing, which delights parents. Some smart mothers even write down the pearls of their heirs in a special notebook - and they do it right!
What is word art?
If a child tries to create his own words, this indicates, first of all, that he began to pay attention to how others speak, that is, to analyze the language that he masters. New words are created either on the basis of existing ones, or are born as something completely new, not previously used in the language of the child and others. One of the reasons for word creation is the physiological imperfection of the articulatory apparatus of a small child. It is difficulties with pronunciation that prevent the baby from learning new sounds and sometimes force them to come up with their own pronunciation of words.
The three-year-old child still replaces and skips sounds, keeps silent and simplifies words. The sounds “p”, “l”, “sh”, “g”, “s”, “z” are especially difficult for him. Speech as a whole becomes more expressive, but it is difficult for the baby to speak in a whisper and his voice is still not strong enough. Together with speech, thinking, attention, memory and creative imagination of the child develop. You notice that the child's play activity has become more diverse. While playing, he often comments on his actions. As before, try to talk more with your child. By voicing your actions, you effectively stimulate both the speech and general development of the baby.
Time flies very quickly, and by the age of four, the child's vocabulary will already have about 2,000 words. The kid comes into contact not only with his family and friends, but also with strangers. He himself initiates communication, and even overcomes everyone with questions, but does not always listen to the answers to the end. Adults should be patient with the "why-why" period. Remember that the “question-answer” connection is a powerful stimulus for the development of not only speech, but also logical thinking, imagination, attention and memory. The baby cannot yet independently tell about the events that happened to him logically and consistently, and the retelling will be inconsistent, however competent questions and tips will be invaluable for him. In this way, you support the child's desire to communicate, which is extremely important for the formation of his personality and the development of communication skills. So, the baby's vocabulary is expanding, not only nouns and verbs are presented in his speech, but also adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, function words. The child frequently uses words such as "mine" and "your". However, there are no generalizing concepts in the baby's active vocabulary yet, although he may find it difficult to use a generalizing concept in a suitable situation. For example, if you ask a kid how to name oak, birch and spruce in one word, he may not answer that these are trees. And if you ask what the concept of "dishes" refers to, the baby will probably find it difficult to answer. But ask the baby what he can drink juice from, and he will answer: "From a cup", "From a mug" or "From a glass." The speech of the child becomes more correct, competent. He is already able to build phrases of four words and even more. However, in some cases, the baby makes mistakes, especially when it comes to grammar, for example, the use of nouns in the plural. The articulatory apparatus of the baby is gradually strengthening, he correctly pronounces most of the sounds. He has difficulties with the sounds "p" and "l", with whistling and hissing sounds (sometimes "s" is replaced by "w" or vice versa). For example, a child says “luchka” instead of “pen”, “vuk” instead of “bow”, “hoe” instead of “hat”, “teeth” instead of “teeth”. The kid skips sounds and syllables less often, does not say words. However, in polysyllabic words, the child can skip a sound or syllable, rearrange them. In some children, at the age of four, speech is already completely clear, others still do not succeed, but in general, pronunciation improves. At the age of four, monologue speech is born, but the child really masters the monologue by the age of five.
Five years is an important stage in the development of a small person. The speech of a five-year-old child is varied, meaningful, colorful. He can already listen carefully to adults, analyze and establish cause-and-effect relationships. The phrase becomes more detailed and literate. True, some grammatical errors still remain, but now there are much fewer of them than before. The baby's speech becomes more expressive. The child not only accurately recognizes the intonation with which he is addressed, but he himself is able to convey various emotions with its help, he can speak louder and quieter, pause. A toddler's vocabulary can contain up to 3,000 words by the age of five! Now all parts of speech are present in his lexicon, and generalizing concepts appear, for example, “clothes”, “furniture”, “decorations” and others. Speech hearing improves: the child recognizes the sound in the word by ear, selects words for a given sound. Due to the fact that the articulatory apparatus of the child is strengthened, the sound pronunciation improves. Speech breathing also develops. The kid is able to pronounce vowel sounds on exhalation for 5-7 seconds! The child gradually ceases to soften sounds, misses sounds and syllables less and less. In words with a large number of syllables, he still makes mistakes, mixes difficult-to-pronounce sounds (“s”, “sh”, “z”, “g”, “h”, “c”, “p”, “l”). For example, "Sasha" turns into "Sasu", "iron" - into "iron", "cup" - into "checker", "rollers" - into "roriki". This is due both to the imperfection of the work of the pronunciation organs, and to the fact that the child does not yet clearly distinguish some sounds by ear.
Five to seven years is the senior preschool age, a time of rapid development of both speech and the child's personality. In the sixth year of life, a child is able to accurately formulate his thought, to highlight the defining features of objects and phenomena of the world around him. The kid listens attentively to your question and answers it independently. He is able, without being distracted, to listen to your answer to a question of interest to him. The child is trying to compose a coherent story on a specific topic. Most often he succeeds, and if any difficulties arise, he begins to be critical of his own speech, as well as the statements of others. When telling, the child tries to convey his emotional attitude to the subject. Thus, monologue speech develops and improves. After watching the movie, the child talks in detail about what he saw, and it becomes clear to whom or what he sympathizes. He is able to tell about the story that happened to him, the events in which he participated. It is important that the child can tell not only about recent events, but also about what happened in the past, for example, a year ago. Children are happy to look at the photographs and tell who is depicted in them, when and under what circumstances.
By the age of six, a child's vocabulary may be 4,000-4,500 words. It includes abstract, abstract and generalizing concepts. The child is able to select antonyms, synonyms, definitions for objects. For example, to the question: “Who swims?”, The baby will answer: “Fish”, “What is going?” - "Machine", "What flies?" - “Airplane”, “Who is crawling?” - "Snake". Of course, mistakes in the use of words are still possible, but on the whole, the speech of a six-year-old child is literate. There can be up to 10 words in a phrase. The articulatory apparatus of a six-year-old child allows you to correctly pronounce all sounds, so most children of this age speak clearly. But some babies begin to make sounds such as whistling, hissing, “l” and “r” only by the age of six. The pronunciation of such sounds should be fixed in the child's speech, and often this happens gradually. Now the baby can speak louder or quieter on his own, As a rule, he speaks at a normal pace, however, when talking about something, he sometimes pauses to think and to formulate the idea more precisely. Speech can speed up in an emotionally significant situation, when the child is excited, excited. At such moments, the baby has less control over his speech: it becomes less intelligible and legible, the child “swallows” individual sounds and syllables, rearranges or repeats them, and does not say words. In the sixth year of life, another important process occurs - the change of milk teeth to permanent ones. This can also cause pronunciation disorders, blurred diction. The nature of the bite has a certain influence on the quality of speech: a child with malocclusion may pronounce some sounds incorrectly. At this age, the child, as a rule, distinguishes speech sounds well by ear. The kid is not only able to hear sounds, but also highlights words with given sounds and syllables among other words, selects words for given sounds, hears the mistakes of others. Sometimes a child has difficulty distinguishing acoustically or articulatory close sounds, such as hissing and whistling, soft and hard (the baby says “mah” instead of “poppy”, “tai” instead of “tea”). Trying to determine the first sound in a word, the child may make a mistake: the first sound in the word “chicken” is called “s”, and in the word “sliver” - “sh”.
By the age of seven, the preschool period of speech development ends. A seven-year-old child easily communicates with adults, asks questions appropriate to the topic and listens to answers, is able to listen attentively, without being distracted, to listen to the interlocutor, to maintain a dialogue. He clearly separates the details and the whole, the particular and the general, he has no difficulty in using generalizing and abstract concepts. The child uses simple phraseological phrases, understands metaphors, can joke, distinguishes between the direct and figurative meanings of words, selects synonyms and antonyms. The child expresses his thoughts in a reasonable logical sequence, correctly builds his story. He is good at describing both what he heard and what he saw, and in the story he conveys his attitude to what he is talking about. The kid can tell from memory, fantasize and put his fantasies into words in such a way that the story is interesting for the interlocutor. Phrases become more detailed and coordinated, they do not contain grammatical errors. Some children sometimes use words inaccurately - this applies to almost all parts of speech, especially nouns and verbs - but as they grow older, the child stops making such mistakes. A seven-year-old child usually pronounces sounds correctly, his speech is clear, legible, and he voluntarily changes pace and rhythm speech, loudness and pitch of the voice. The child speaks expressively, with the help of various intonations, conveys his attitude to what is being expressed, that is, his speech is emotionally colored.
The development of a child's speech can be divided into three stages. The first preparatory period includes screaming, cooing and cooing, babbling. The baby repeats sounds after adults, learns to pronounce syllables, first one by one, then one after another. The second stage begins after eight months and implies that the child can already speak whole words.
By the age of one year, a child's vocabulary, as a rule, is already 10-12 easy words. Gradually it increases, and the words become more complicated. After 1.5-2 years, the third period of speech development begins, when the baby understands addressed speech, fulfills simple requirements according to the word and can purposefully point to a toy, object or to the side.
Stages of speech development of a child
| Baby's age | Speech development and communication skills |
| Newborn up to 1.5 months | Reflex cry, after four weeks it becomes more conscious, with the help of a cry, the newborn reports displeasure or discomfort |
| 1.5-3 months | The child begins to coo and coo, chant vowels and consonants. By the third month, the baby can walk to get a response. |
| 4-6 months | The baby begins to pronounce the first light syllables. He feels the need to communicate with an adult, shows joy and animation when communicating |
| From 6-7 months | Pronunciation of whole chains of syllables, begins to speak the first easy words (mom, dad, woman) |
| Since the year | The baby pronounces and understands whole words (on average 10-15 words) |
| 1.5-2.5 years | Simple sentences of two words appear, the first adjectives are found in speech, the child is actively interested in the world around him, vocabulary increases |
| 2.5-3 years | Complex sentences and grammatical forms of words appear, so the baby can change the word by cases and numbers. The child often verbalizes his actions |
| Over three years old | Vocabulary expands, the child can build complex sentences and memorize small verses |
When the baby starts to roam
In this article, we'll take a closer look at when a baby starts cooing and cooing. Many parents are interested in how many months children acquire this skill. This usually happens after eight weeks. At this age, babies are already consciously showing emotions. They can laugh out loud and show discontent, experience joy and curiosity, experience fear and resentment.
A two-month-old baby can express emotions by crying or smiling. The baby develops facial expressions. He begins to pronounce the first sounds. Basically, these are the vowels “a”, “y”, “e” and “o”. What else can a baby in two months, read.
At 4-5 months, consonants are added, including “p”, “b”, “m”. The baby pronounces various versions of the sounds “gee”, “ge” and “agu”, gradually moves to light syllables, like “ma”, “pa” and “ba”. Then these syllables will line up in chains and easy words.
At four months, the baby becomes more active. He recognizes familiar voices and faces, waves his arms and legs, smiles back. The baby recognizes and reacts to his name, tries to repeat the words after the adult.
If the baby has not learned to babble and babble by six months, see a doctor! Your child may have developmental or hearing problems.
Cooing, cooing and babbling is an important stage in the development of speech. At how many months, how quickly and correctly the baby will speak, depends on the intensity and effectiveness of the classes. Therefore, it is important to exercise regularly with the baby.
The development of the speech of a child up to six months
- Talk to your child regularly. Tell and explain what you are doing. At the same time, speech should be calm, affectionate and unhurried. Do not scream at the baby!;
- In stories, use emotions and intonations, gestures and facial expressions. The baby happily repeats the movements of the lips, words and sounds after the adult. Remember that children follow the intonation and tone in the voice, sounds and gestures;
- Use picture cards to practice. Say out loud what is in the picture;
- The baby perceives the sounds of animals well, so use cards with drawings of animals and similar toys. Point to animals and imitate sounds (“moo”, “woof”, “meow”);
- At six months, the baby already plays well with toys. He knows how to search for a hidden object and can reach for it. Show the baby a toy and hide it, he will look in the direction where you hid it and reach out with his arms. Show the toy again, while saying “Where is the cat (dog, cow, etc.)? Here she is! Take the kitty! How does a cat meow? Meow meow";
- Point and push the toy to encourage the baby to crawl. At what age do babies start crawling, see the link. Do not forget to say what you are doing and communicate with the baby during the game;
- Repeat the sounds that the baby makes and add new ones. When you hear that the baby starts to walk, answer!
- After five months, the child perceives the melodies and sounds of animals well, so offer him musical and talking toys;
- For the development of speech and fine motor skills, the points that are located on the palms are responsible. Therefore, light massaging movements of the palms contribute to the development of this part of the brain. In addition, such a massage relaxes and soothes the baby;
- Well promotes the development of the game of hide and seek. Hide your face with your palms, ask “Where am I?”, And then open and say “Here I am!”;
- When communicating with a child, use nursery rhymes, songs, fairy tales and rhymes. Don't twist words!
At what time children begin to coo and walk, it also depends on the characteristics of the development and character of the baby. Some children master the first sounds as early as 1.5 months, others only at four. Sometimes the child starts to hum at the time, but then falls silent. This means that he is preparing for new words and after a while he will be able to pronounce new sounds or even syllables. Therefore, at how many months the baby will begin to coo and walk - an individual question. It is worth worrying if the baby is silent by six months.
The first month of a newborn baby's life is filled with round-the-clock care for his little body, long feeding, and mommy's anxious vigil for his regimen. However, in the second month, parents are already starting the pedagogical process of developing the crumbs and immediately ask themselves the question “And when does the child start to coo?”.
Indeed, after 5-6 weeks, the newborn baby suddenly begins to make guttural sounds, pronouncing some vowels, and the mother can not wait to start communicating with her child as soon as possible.
The first sounds can be heard as early as 1.5 months. These will be the vowels "a", "o", "u", taken by many adults for everyone's favorite children's word "agu".
At first, the baby trains a new skill alone with himself. He swings his arms, twitches his legs and utters new sounds to the beat of his movements. A kid at this age perceives any movement as an object of observation, so sometimes his own sharp strokes are enough for him to start a cheerful conversation with a flashed object.
When a child begins to coo consciously and intentionally
3-4 months is the age of conscious cooing. He already knows how to add consonants to his sounds. Most often, these are sounds produced by the contraction of the muscles of the palate, close to the guttural ones. The sounds “g”, “g”, “x”, “k” - such actions are given to the baby most easily.
Much later, after six months, the baby will learn to make the labial sounds "m", "p", "b", which is why it turned out that almost all peoples of the world have the words "mom" and "dad" have lip phonetics - the parents simply called themselves those sounds that were first made by babies. However, more on that later.
If the baby is stubbornly silent
First, under no circumstances should you start worrying from scratch. If the neighbor's peanut speech is more developed, and he pronounces the sound "o" more clearly, do not rush to run to a speech therapist. It’s just that your baby hasn’t had a moment of eloquence yet.
The speech centers in the brain of heterosexual children are located in different hemispheres. That is why the time of manifestation of speech activity can be different.
If your older toddler has gone on a spree earlier, don't worry, it's just nature's wish - she knows best when your child should start cooing.
How to help the baby if he does not start to walk?
On the palms of the crumbs are acupuncture points that affect the development of speech abilities. By developing the fine motor skills of an infant, you first of all help him go on a spree.
In what ways can you develop fine motor skills of the baby:
- Do hand massage.
- Spreading on the tummy, put structural mats under the arms.
- Play with the baby in the palms, clap the palms from the inside, tap with your finger.
- Bend and unbend the fingers, forcing blood to flow to them and nourish the nerve endings.
- Constantly touch his palms.
- Crying in sleep at noise.
How can you determine that the baby hears and understands you, although he is silent:
- A smile in response to the affectionate talk of mom.
- Change of facial expressions as a reaction to unexpected sounds.
- Crying in sleep at noise.
- Expression of positive emotions at the sight of toys.
- Sharpening the attention of the baby at the moment of singing a melody to him.
These minor little things that are repeated every day testify to the correct development of the baby.
The manifestation of reactions is the main task of the crumbs that have just begun to live. But what kind of individual reaction he has is already his personal choice! The time when a child begins to cooing always comes unexpectedly and is different for everyone.
If you want to quickly start communicating with your baby, start the dialogues yourself. Sing children's songs to him with short words and pronounced sounds, speak to him in syllables, just draw out individual vowel sounds. At first, the kid will just smile toothlessly, then he will try to roll his lips into a tube, and one day the first sounds will appear on their own!
The baby will very quickly learn to control his speech apparatus, and, of course, his mother will be his main assistant in this!