Delayed speech development in children... Do not trust a doctor who treats the disease with pills!

Doctors often face two opposing approaches to parent-child relationships. In the first case, adults are overworried: when a child does not speak at two years old, they already sound the alarm. According to a friend, her child at this age already read poetry.

The second group stubbornly tries not to notice problems in the development of the baby, writing off everything on heredity or super-calm character of the child.





Often, the parents of the second group are overwhelmed by a sense of terror when the doctor makes a diagnosis. "Delayed Speech Development" (ADR) and gives out a prescription with a list of drugs to improve brain function.

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Dr. Komarovsky advises parents in this case to immediately abandon such treatment: “I am overwhelmed by despair: why so many years to write and film, to put all this in the public domain, and then to see that all this is not interested in anyone?”





Well, it would seem, how many times I have already written that no delay in speech development is treated with drugs! How many times has he warned that if a doctor prescribes pills that would make a child talk better, he is not a doctor but a charlatan?





Dr. Komarovsky insists that it is necessary to find out the main cause of speech delay and start treatment based on it: First of all, it is necessary to find out what exactly you mean by the term “does not speak”: does not understand and does not speak; understands everything, but is silent; speaks, but does not understand (makes sounds, but does not connect them into words); says individual words, but does not bind them into sentences.





In any case, if the child has speech problemsFirst of all, make sure that the child hears well. If the response to sound is normal, ear disease as a cause of speech disorder can be ruled out.





Very rarely, but still it happens that the cause of “speech retardation” is some kind of brain disease. Even a background neurological disorder can cause a speech center disorder.





If a child has something similar, then you need to treat the underlying disease - the cause speechlessness. You should contact a neurologist, and the sooner the better.





If a non-speaking child is healthy, understands everything, actively communicates with others, recognizes loved ones, then you should not worry until 3 years old. If he does not connect letters into words, and words into sentences after 3 years, then again you need to contact a neurologist.

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If a child after 3-4 years speaks normally, but does not pronounce individual letters, you need to contact both a neurologist and a speech therapist. Difficulty of speech in a child can also be caused by the fact that he simply does not talk much.





If the baby, for example, is brought up by grandparents who are not prone to talking, it may well be that in kindergarten, in a team, the child will catch up, begin to talk normally.





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