Normal Speech Development
Normal Speech Development: When should I expect my child to talk?
All children develop speech and language skills at different times. We as speech language pathologists, however, become concerned when children are falling significantly below their age level for both understanding and talking. Here are a few guidelines you can use to see if your children are developing speech and language skills appropriately:7 months – 1…
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The young child who is still struggling to master certain sounds, vocabulary, sentence arrangement and the social pressures of talking will naturally stumble over speech more often than adults or older children. Because children with normal disfluencies show many of the same behaviors found in stuttering, it may be difficult for you to distinguish normal…
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