Questions tagged [speech]
Questions relating to speech. Appropriate topics include learning to speak, speech disabilities, and improving specific speech skills. As with other health-related topics, questions relating to diagnosing or treating a specific medical condition may be closed, as they should be asked of an appropriate medical professional.
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Recovering from selective mutism
I have two twin daughters 12 year old, with selective mutism (SM) who used not to talk in school at all but have been steadily improving - talking to friends in their ear at the playground - and can ...
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3yr old still refusing solids
My 3yr old son will not eat anything except for Gerber stage 2 purees. He gags on any other food offered and physically refuses it. He drinks while milk with rice cereal added and sometimes flavoring. ...
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My 3 years old daughter doesn’t talk to teacher
My 3years old daughter, who is very talkative at home but silent when we meet others and at school. She has been going to playschool from 18 months old but hasn’t spoke with her teachers atleast once. ...
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Our seven year old son has trouble responding to certain kinds of adult interactions
Our seven year old boy is a smart kid, loves to explain things, joke around, etc. However, when someone pays him a compliment, or asks him an unexpected question, he freezes up and doesn't know how to ...
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First Dad - How to make her understand that I am DAD [closed]
I am first time parents and my daughter is 22 months, she is turning 2 in 60 days. My concern is she is not responding to her name, sometime she do, like once or twice in a day. Her hearing is fine. ...
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My son doesn't understand me when I talk to him
My son is 20 months old, and an active child. He listens when I call his name, and we have some non-verbal communication. But he doesn't understand what I'm saying to him. Whenever I say, "Come ...
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Child Mumbles When Asking Questions
My sister's kid is 5 years old and I watch him while she's at work. I'm autistic and have auditory processing problems so I can't hear him when he mumbles softly which is all he ever does when he ...
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How to discourage verbal use of "like" with 4 year-old?
I have a very verbal, articulate 4 year-old son (he's our oldest). I have recently noticed that, after spending a large amount of time with older cousins, he has begun the dreaded use of the word like ...
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Complete or not complete the child's sentences
My healthy and otherwise no-problems five year old sometimes stops mid-sentence to choose a word. For instance, he just asked me if I like his scooter. But the word scooter eluded him, even though he ...
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How do I motivate my 6 year old son to practise speech therapy at home?
My six-year-old son needs speech therapy.
The diagnosis is firstly a myofunctional disorder with a lack of lip closure, impaired orofacial sensitivity and coordination, non-physiological tongue rest ...
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My 6 year old answers teachers slowly during distance education
My 6 year old child's behaviour in zoom schooling is a bit different.
When we take his study at home, he responds well. But when it comes to responding to teachers, he answers a bit slowly.
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What does it mean if my son is better talking to strangers than classmates
My son is five. He calls greetings (quieter than he used to because they don't respond) to strangers on the street and talks animatedly and with children he befriended at the park. However when he ...
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When should we be concerned about garbled speech in my 2.5-year-old?
My 2.5-year-old toddler has started saying words (more like noises) that me and my wife can sometimes understand, but they barley sound like the intended words. At what point should we start to get ...
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Is it normal for a 3-year-old to repeat the question before answering?
My 3 years and 3 months old son has speech delay. He repeats the question and then answers (mainly choice questions). At age 3, if I asked him any question ('this or that'), he simply repeated ('this ...
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How to help a 3 year old to speak?
My child is 2 year 10 months. He is not speaking by his own. If I ask him "What do you want apple or banana?" he answers me: "apple banana". He is not able to understand me. Some kids call him: "come ...
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My 2 year 8 month old son is not interested in hearing stories [closed]
How to make child get interested in stories? He colors the book but by seeing somewhere. He just shows interest in only very limited food. He is suffering from constipation. He is able to say rhymes, ...
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My 2-year-old son is still not talking. Is this normal?
I have a 2-year-old son. He still isn't talking, he'll say words here and there like "bird" when he sees a bird and he'll say words like mama or dada sometimes but never in correlation with my wife or ...
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How to teach "Li" sound?
Few months back I asked a question about how to teach my daughter 'L' sound. Now she is able to sound 'La', 'Lu', and 'Lo' properly. But she is still facing the trouble in speaking 'Li', and 'Le' ...
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How to help my 4-year-old focus on his tasks instead of zoning out?
My 4-year-old son is diagnosed with speech and a borderline case of autism (score was—29). Since 2 months ago he started to speak in sentences, tries to talk on his own and tries to explain what ...
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What can I do to teach my 22 months old toddler to talk?
My son completed 22 months and not talking with us. My wife stays at home to take care of him. Right now he says some 15-20 alphabets, 4 colors. We usually show him TV during lunch and dinner (60 ...
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Should I speak English with my toddler
My spouse has a plan!
She wants me to speak English with my toddler, to give him an early advantage in English.
We live in Israel and both of us speak Hebrew, this is our native language.
While my ...
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How to make my 5-year-old speak in first person when she speaks in second person?
My 5-year-old daughter talks a lot. But when she does, it's in second person (i.e. the second person in the conversation), saying what she expects I would say when directed towards her. So she's not ...
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How to make my daughter not to make nose sound while speaking?
My daughter is 3.5 years old. She doesn't sound few letters like 'L' but 'N' instead. But I believe she will learn that by time.
However few weeks back I noticed that she speaks from her nose (nasal ...
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4 to 5 year old child taking time to answer questions
When asked my 4 year old either does not respond to the question or responds slowly and I've seen 3 year olds respond much more quickly.
Is this a development concern or is something in the "normal" ...
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My 3-year-old is not speaking but pointing
My son is 3 years and 3 months old. He does not talk at all. He had an assessment when he was 2.5 years old, but the doctor would not want diagnose ASD as he is still young. He has been going for ...
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How to explain the concept of past / future to a kid?
I have troubles explaining the concept of past / future to my son. He certainly has some idea of time by now, but can't express it correctly. He has picked up the word "tomorrow" and uses it ...
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My five year boy child is not able to speak letters starting with "L" or "R" clearly
My five year boy child is not able to speak letters starting with "L" or "R" clearly.
For example if he has to say "Light" he pronounce it as "Aaight" or sometimes "Haaight". Similar for say "Rat" ...
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Is there evidence to suggest that young boys articulate their learning differently to girls?
My son came home from the first week of kindergarten. Each day I asked him:
"What did you learn at school today?"
His response:
"Nothing."
When I ask his teacher what they've been learning - ...
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What to do about a 19-month-old not talking?
My 19-month-old son is an only child and doesn't go to daycare. He doesn't talk, just says mama and baba and not all the time - maybe one or two times a day. I try to talk with him but I don't know ...
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What benefits does using "baby talk" provide, and how do you maximize those benefits?
When I was doing my initial language development research about 7 years ago, I vaguely remember seeing several (probably non-scientific or blog sources) recommend against using "baby talk", arguing ...
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How can I make my baby try and talk
Is there a way which will encourage babies to try and talk words?
I have tried talking to my baby girl a lot of times, but that doesn't seem to help
She is 1 year old
I just want to check if I can ...
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23-month-old son does not listen or acknowledge
My son is 23 months old. He is normally very active, running and playing with his toys.
My only problem is whenever we call him, he won't listen because he is so busy. He would simply not care what ...
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Can you tell if toddler speech is delayed at 15 months?
Can you tell at age 15-16 months if child has a speech impediment?
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Recommendations on helping a 4 year old with speech difficulty
It was recently suggested by our son's doctor that he be evaluated for signs of Autism due to certain tendencies he has such as an underdeveloped speech ability. We have the appointment scheduled ...
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Why is my 6-year-old son yelling or being very loud when talking?
I have a 6-year-old son. Whenever he talks, he yells. He has had several hearing tests and passes them with flying colors. I do not understand why he tends to yell. Is his behavior normal?
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How can I get my child (two and a half) to vocalize, to make any sounds,
My son is two and a half, with developmental delay. He has low tone muscles, which we work on intensively with psychotherapy. He can now crawl, but not walk.
He doesn't talk, nor say any words, and ...
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How to motivate a 3 year old to answer "yes" or "no"
My son is 3 years old, and started to speak late. Now his vocabulary is vastly increasing, and I can ask him about colors of things or numbers or where is this and that, but I would like to pose him ...
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How do i stop my 5yr old repeating herself and is she fine?
she says," I want, I want , I want to drink water". Or "I don't I don't I don't want to go". When she is angry or chatting to her dolls, she does not repeat herself. Apart from that she is fine and ...
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At what age do trilingual toddlers develop consistent speech?
My husband and I speak 3 languages fluently, our native, swahili and English. My biggest concern is we speak both of the languages in the house and as a parent I'm now concerned that we might confuse ...
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15 month old girl hasn't learned any new words in months
My 15 months old girl hasn't learned any new words in 4 months. The only words she can say are 'Mom', 'Dad', 'Dog' and 'Hi'. She has started grunting for what she wants, but isn't saying anything more....
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Combining sounds to simple words
This is my third child, and so I'm not too worried, etc...
I'm wondering if anyone has any thoughts on how to encourage or work towards combining sounds a toddler already knows (in this case "s" with ...
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My toddler calls me "Mommy", but I'm his father
It was cute and funny at first that both of us were being called Mommy, and I still don't really mind. My wife and I laugh and try to correct him, pointing to pictures, ourselves and repeating the ...
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Should I be concerned that my 2 year-old cannot pronounce sounds like "vee" and "fee"?
Our first child had no problems speaking quite clearly.
However, our second child who is 2 years old
has trouble pronouncing sounds like "vee" and "fee".
For example, "vessel" becomes "bessel" and "...
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What age do kids really "master" the conversational basics?
I'm not talking about when they speak their first words, or even their first sentences, but the age where they can carry on a decent conversation with (say) kids of the same age. What age does this ...
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Getting real answers from a 3 year old
Whenever we ask our 3-year-old an open-ended what or why question, he will usually just ask "Why?" or "What?" back. Examples:
(He wakes crying at night. We go in.) Why are you crying? "Why...?"
(He ...
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2 year old still drooling, what can i do?
I have a child of two years and still drooling, at first I did not care much but I fear that this will become a habit or interfere with their ability to speak. I already visited the pediatrician and ...
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When do bilingual kids start to talk fluently?
My older boy is turning 3 years old soon. And he still does not build meaningful sentence.
He is being raised inside Czech Republic, and we, both parents are Czech speaking. But thing is, that we do ...
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How can I help my 9 year old son fall asleep and stop stuttering?
My 9 year old son has always had a bedtime routine and has never had a problem falling asleep. However, during 3rd grade he began stuttering routinely and also began having problems falling asleep.
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My son talks way too fast and I need help
My son talks way too fast and often ends sentences with a mumble, especially when he is enthusiastic. It is really difficult to follow his conversation and I end up getting very stressed, after ...
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Moving my speech delayed 5.5 yo son to a foreign environment
I have a speech-delayed 5.5 years old son. Our first language is Arabic and he goes to an Arabic school that teaches English as a second language.
We have been doing speech therapy since he was 3.5 ...