I often hear from parents, “are we responsible for our child’s delayed speech and language development”, the answer is NO!

If you have asked yourself this question, then you are not alone. If your child’s speech and language development is delayed, you may have struggled with guilt, thinking it was your fault. You are not to blame for your child’s delayed speech and language development, but you may influence your child's language and speech development to be significantly slower.

HOW?

If you let your child spend more time on the phone or iPod, so that you can have more time to dedicate to household chores or maybe professional commitments, if you work from home, your child does not have a direct dialogue with you, does not interact with you, and the interaction is very important for the child, because in this way the child focuses his/her attention on you, on the voices and words you say, observes your gestures, and this is necessary for the speech and language development.

Children are curious and have a natural need to explore the world around them.

During daily routines and playtime, you should have constant communication with the child.

Furthermore, there are parents who postpone the speech assessment and speech therapy, thinking, our child will speak, there is time, he is a boy, the pediatrician told us to wait.

If the child has developmental dysphasia, it is not your fault. But the progress and further delay in speech and language development do depend on you.