If a three-and-a-half year old baby’s speech delay is caused by physiological factors such as language environment and heredity, no special treatment is usually needed. However, if it is caused by autism, cerebral palsy and other diseases, it is necessary to take medication, rehabilitation and surgery to treat the cause of the disease.
1. Physiological factors: If parents are not able to stay with their babies for a long time because of work, and do not provide a better language environment for them, this may lead to speech delay in three-and-a-half-year-old babies. Or it may be due to genetic factors, such cases generally do not need to take treatment measures. Parents need to be patient and educate the baby to learn to speak, usually after a period of time, can be relieved.
2. Autism: Children with autism may have communication disorders, social interaction disorders and other symptoms, which may lead to speech delay in three-and-a-half-year-old babies. Parents need to be under the guidance of the doctor, give the child individual training, family participation therapy, behavioral therapy. As well as oral antipsychotic drugs such as risperidone as prescribed by the doctor.
3. Cerebral palsy: Symptoms of cerebral palsy include mental retardation, language disorder, seizures, etc. Some children may have speech delay in 3.5-year-old babies. Family rehabilitation, special education, guided education, sensory integration training, etc. need to be carried out in time.
When physiological factors are ruled out, parents need to bring their three-and-a-half year old babies to the hospital in time to clarify the cause of the disease if they have delayed speech.