When a child pronounces the first word, the age

The first word that the child says is forever remembered to parents. Photo: Getty

When does the child say the first word?

The baby wants to communicate with the world around himfrom birth. His first attempts to do this are onomatopoeia. He looks at the adults around him and repeats the movements of his lips, tongue, and changes in facial expressions. Up to six months, children can only cry and pronounce random sets of sounds. The result is a cute cooing sound, which caring parents sometimes compare to speech. After six months, the baby's sound stock expands. He manages to reproduce what he hears around him and produce something like words: "ba-ba", "ga-ga", etc. This cannot be regarded as speech: the sounds are pronounced unconsciously, the baby is just learning to use the articulatory apparatus. Conscious speech is possible for infants at the end of the first year of life. Girls begin to speak at about 10 months, boys "mature" later - by 11-12 months. The first word a child pronounces is "ba-ba", "ga-ga", etc. usually "mom", because it is she whom he sees most often, through her he learns about the world around him, and most of his emotions are connected with her. After the first conscious word, a period of "calm" begins. The baby practically does not speak and accumulates passive vocabulary. By 1.5 years, the baby begins to construct simple sentences. By this age, his vocabulary has more than 50 positions, which the child can use quite consciously.

How to help your child speak the first words faster?

In order for the baby's speech skills to develop quickly, it is necessary to work with him from birth. Experts advise following the following rules:

don't "babble" and communicate with your baby in literate Russian;
repeat the names of objects several times in different situations;
read fairy tales and poems;
play with the baby.

The inability to speak is often due to underdeveloped muscles of the lips and mouth. To correct this deficiency, suggest that the child do simple exercises:

blow;
whistle;
hold a straw with your upper lip like a mustache;
imitate the sounds made by animals.

It has been observed that the age at which the first words are pronouncedwords of a child depends on the characteristics of his family. Children of "talkative" parents begin to communicate earlier than those born to "silent" ones. Children who are regularly read books are already able to formulate sentences at 1.5-2 years old, and also recite a short poem by heart.