How do I know that my child is slow to speak and is a normal age to speak

 The normal age of speech in children

The average age at which children utter their first word clearly is usually at the age of twelve months, when they begin to pronounce sentences consisting of two words, and there are differences in the time of pronunciation between one child and another, as children can begin to speak words before children of the same age, but they They may stumble upon some words for several months and are preceded by children who are late in speaking, so you should not panic or compare between children, as each child will speak when he is ready to speak.

How to know speech delay in children

Each child develops in his own way, and if the child's speech does not develop, then the doctor believes that the child suffers from a delay in speech if he is unable to do the following:

 At 12 to 15 months old, simple words like mama are spoken, either clearly or indistinctly.

Understand simple words, such as: no or stop before 18 months old. Speaking in short sentences before three years of age. Telling a simple story at the age of 4-5.

Improve children's speech skills

There are things that indicate the development of speech skills in children, including the following:

Babies before 12 months of age should start paying attention to sounds, begin to recognize the names of things, and by their first year of age, start using their sounds. To interact with the environment around them, make different sounds and tones of speech without understanding what they mean by those words, and say words like mama and dad. A child at 12 to 15 months old should have a set of sounds and words as they begin to imitate the names they hear and understand what they are told. Babies at the age of 18 to 24 months can speak twenty words at the age of 18 months, and fifty words or more at the age of two, and the child begins by combining two words to form a simple sentence. Parents notice the development of the child's speech at the age of 2-3 years, and he becomes more vocabulary, and is able to combine three words or more, to form sentences, and understand what others mean, and begin to identify colors, and understand some concepts.