People themselves are very eager to communicate, and this can be visually demonstrated in babies and toddlers. Although babies cannot speak, they do try to communicate with their mothers in a variety of ways. Parents can help their toddlers develop their language according to their language development characteristics at various stages.
I. 0-2 Months
Developmental characteristics
1. Easy to be sensitive. Pay attention to all kinds of sounds around them and look at the person who is talking for a long time.
2. Love to communicate. About half a month after birth, they aspire to talk to their mothers and begin to grunt and use different cries to tell their mothers about their different needs.
3. Discriminate and respond. By the time they are 2 months old, they can basically distinguish their mother’s voice and make sounds in response.
Cultivation methods
1.More communication. When talking to your baby, you can exaggerate your expressions and encourage him to make sounds.
2, more experience. The baby’s language may be difficult to understand, but the mother and child are connected, quietly and slowly experience, remember any kind of sound to give a response.
3, eye contact. In this period of time language communication is still difficult, adhere to eye contact, often face the baby, so that he can feel your love for him.
Two, 2-6 months
Developmental characteristics
1. Vowels and consonants. You will find that your baby will make a, o, e sounds from time to time after he can laugh. When you are not happy, you will find the sound of n, m, p, and when you are happy, you will also mix with the sound of k, and will also yi yi yi yi “talk” with mom.
2. Becoming more sensitive. When someone calls his name, he will immediately turn his head to look for it. When he sees a familiar family member, book or toy, he will make a happy sound.
3.Diverse voices. At four months of age, the child will squeal happily and even make bubbling noises. At six months of age, he/she will hazily make ma and da sounds.
Cultivation methods
1. Exercise the tongue. The child can be guided to suck or lick the nipple frequently.
2. Listen to music. Play very rhythmic children’s music, or recite children’s songs often.
3.Smiling face to welcome the baby. Laugh often in front of your baby and let him try to imitate through comical performances.
3.7-12 months
Developmental characteristics
1.Clear pronunciation. At 8 months, he can pronounce ba, ma and da clearly, and at 8 months, he can say baba and mama together.
At 10 months old, they start to imitate the voice of others and become more and more alike. By the age of 1 year, they can also imitate the sound of small animals.
3. Understanding. The ability to understand is getting stronger, nodding in agreement, shaking his head in opposition, and understanding the instructions of adults, such as waving bye, clapping hands, etc.
Cultivation methods
1.Be a good teacher. Your baby will imitate your voice to learn to speak, so when you talk to him, you should slow down and say it word by word, preferably combined with some action to express.
2, together with yi yi yi. Use your baby’s language, he will see you happy look more effort to say.
3.Follow him. This stage of the baby will pop words, may be along with him to say, and give him a hug to encourage, so that he keeps practicing talking.
4.Understand. Even if the baby can say a certain word or words may not be able to understand the meaning, parents have to make him understand through actions or objects.
4.1-2 years old
Developmental characteristics of 12-18 months.
1. Cognitive ability becomes stronger. Toddlers gradually recognize some simple things, such as apples, water cups, hats, etc.
2. Speaking strange language. Begin to create new kinds of language, which outsiders generally do not understand very well, and will keep repeating the adult’s mantra.
3.Can say about 10 words. These include verbs such as eat, hold, grab, and familiar objects and names of people.
Cultivation methods
1, the correct expression. When he wants to eat candy, he may only say “mommy”, then you need to say “mommy will give you a candy right away”, and then repeat the word “candy”. The word, later he will say: “Mom, sugar”.
2. Reading. Read to the baby, and focus on the names of people and objects, repeat the names of items he is familiar with, and guide the baby to follow the reading.
3.Listen to the sound. Let the baby listen to various sounds, such as the sound of rain, thunder, turning books, and help him to identify.
4.Relate to life. Starting from the surrounding, let him identify the colors and categories of different objects, and if necessary, teach him to count.
Developmental characteristics of 18-24 months.
1.Can say short sentences. A slightly stronger child can easily say 4 or 5 words to form a sentence, mastering 30 words is not a problem.
2. Learn to communicate. Begin to learn to really communicate, will politely wait for others to finish before saying their wishes, and say different words in different scenarios, and can answer simple questions from adults.
3.Love to repeat. They are keen to listen to their favorite songs and watch their favorite books and cartoons over and over again.
Cultivation methods
1.Use more adjectives, adverbs and prepositions. The baby can use nouns and pronouns, so the mother should add more adjectives, adverbs and prepositions in her speech, and try to use body language to let him understand the meaning.
2. Do not compare. Different children have different language skills, so don’t rush or compare them, as this will destroy your child’s interest in learning language.