0-3 years old is the most rapid period of children's language development, and it is a critical period for children's language development. From the loud crying of the baby to the babbling to being able to express it freely, it is a continuous step-by-step process.
Children's language development can be divided into three stages: 0-1 years old is the pre-verbal stage. Babies and toddlers at this stage have a lot of unconscious pronunciation. Such as: O, A, MAMAMAMA, BABABABAB, DADA, etc. These pronunciations are all in preparation for the child's vocal speech, so this stage is also the stage of speech preparation. 1-2 years of age is the stage of speech production. At this stage, children can independently say meaningful words or phrases, such as: home, walking, Wangwang, daddy's car, baby eating, etc. 2-3 years old is the stage of basic mastery of oral English. At this stage, the child is able to articulate his or her needs using spoken language.
The basic components of language include: phonetics, semantics, grammar, and pragmatics. Speech is the material carrier of oral language, which is the sound emitted by the human articulatory organ to express a certain linguistic meaning. The development of children's speech is regular and phased. Semantics is the meaning directly or indirectly expressed by language forms, including lexical semantics, syntactic semantics and pragmatic semantics. That is, the meaning expressed by a word or sentence. Grammar is composed of a series of grammatical units and finite grammatical rules, and is the most abstract basic system of language. Pragmatics refers to the use of language in a certain linguistic environment. That is, how to use language, how to use language to communicate effectively.
Children with hearing loss have a later start on language development due to early hearing loss. Some children have no speech at all until they wear hearing aids. At this time, it is necessary for parents and teachers to work together to promote the development of listening ability on the premise of promoting the rapid development of the baby's language. Of course, the overall stage of language development is the same for all children, just at different times.
In the course of a child's language development, a variety of problems can also arise. For example, children always stutter when they speak, children always like to say "no", children do not like to communicate with others, etc. Some of these are normal stages of language development, but it is still necessary to identify the cause and respond with the right strategies.
Starting from this issue, the "Language Field" column of [Hearing-impaired Children] will be officially opened, let's explore the language development of young babies together!