GUIDANCE BULLETIN - MAY  (Our newsletters are renewed every month)

Child and Language Development

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In many areas of our lives; We need language when we communicate, read, write and think. Thanks to the language we acquire from birth to adulthood, we can describe past events, think about the future and make plans.  Therefore, we unconsciously need language for many actions we perform in our daily lives. There are many things we wonder about how the language, which takes such an important place in our lives, has developed. On the one hand, families who are worried that their child does not speak, on the other hand, those who wonder whether their child's word count is appropriate for his age, and on the other hand, families who want to know what kind of process will be encountered while learning more than one language...

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There is a specific language development process that all people encounter as they grow up. Although this process shows slight variations with individual differences, it follows the same order. Babies are born with the ability to speak and language in the normal development process, and from the moment they are born, they learn their mother tongue thanks to the verbal communication established by their environment with them. For this reason, it is very important for the caregiver and the people around him/her to give verbal stimuli by talking to the baby during infancy. As they grow up, they have the ability to express their wishes by making various sounds in response to the sounds they hear. From the sixth month, spellings such as "ba-ba-ba" are seen. They need various factors to use and develop these innate skills. If there is no biological problem (hearing problem, cleft palate-lip condition, pervasive developmental disorder, etc.), the most important factor affecting language development is the social environment.

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The environmental factor affects language development as well as healthy language learning. Many parents use "baby" language when talking to their child. However, the language that the child should learn is the normal spoken language. For this reason, it is very important to say the words correctly when talking to children and to listen patiently to what they are trying to tell. While playing, giving verbal instructions to the child and talking to the child will also contribute to language development. Preschool education and being together with peers positively affect language development. Language development, like many skills, develops as the need to use it in the social environment is felt.

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Things to do for language development between 12 months and 36 months;

• Speak in neat, simple and short sentences.

• Make your child talk a lot. (Sometimes it's good to pretend you don't understand the little mutters!)

• Ask him questions to encourage conversation. (It is very important that speaking is an unconscious need and necessity for communication)

• Create an environment for him to meet and talk with his peers.

• Speak using pronouns and prepositions (I did, you asked, etc.)

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Guidance Unit

Psychologist Icon Tekin