Signs that your child might benefit from speech therapy
Parents, in particular, should become knowledgeable about speech and language development during their child's early years and keep an eye out for any potential problems. Here are some warning signs that your child might be having trouble speaking or understanding language and needs speech therapy. 1. No babbling between the ages of 4 and 7 months. An extremely silent newborn who does not experiment with sounds through babbling may have a speech or language impairment. 2. No gestures are made. At 7 to 12 months, if your baby is not expressing themselves through gestures like pointing and waving or only seldom does so, this could be a sign of a possible speech problem. 3. Having trouble following oral instructions. Simple vocal orders should be understandable to children between the ages of 1 and 2. If your child doesn't seem to comprehend what you're saying, there can be a problem with their language development. 4. Relying on sentence fragments rather than complete p...