How A Child Suffers from Identity Speech and Language Delay

The delay of a child in learning language and beginning speech can pose a big problem to the parents. More so, the conceptual vagueness of the child in understanding his identity too becomes a big problem that can affect the overall development in the growing up years. A child starts to learn language right from when they start hearing. But hearing coupled with the freedom to speak and make sounds is natural and healthy and is a complete process. And when this process is barred due to one or more varied reasons, then you will see the child grabbing things slowly and have identity speech and language delay.

When a child experiences identity speech and language delay then there are several possible reasons behind this. The guardians and parents, environment of the child, upbringing, company, medical conditions, physical limitations, brain developments, and many other things matter singly or in combination for the problem to get created.

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Given Below are Some of the Most Common Reasons for Delay in Speech and Identity Development:

• Illnesses of the Childhood: A child may not show progress in speech and identity development due to certain illnesses that interfere with the normal delivery of speech, making of sound, and understanding the identity. Illnesses that interfere with temporary or permanent brain function and understanding are the problem. Like chronic ear infections can delay speech and development, as they tend to store much fluid inside the ears thereby leading to loss in hearing or troubled hearing.

• Extreme use of Bottles and Dummies: Infants are often pacified by the use of dummies, and sometimes they get into prolonged habits of drinking water and milk from bottles which they cannot quit. Any such thing, which engages the tongue, lip muscles and do not let the infant make sounds, or experiment with speech and sounds, can be barriers in speech and language development. That is why these things can be treated as a mechanical barrier for identity speech and language delay.

• Oral Muscle Usage Difficulties: Sometimes either the jaw, or the tongue, lips or all of them can be affected by poor motor nerve development leading to arrested or restricted speech. When the child will not be able to move any of these parts freely from early childhood, or may be later, then it is obvious that identity speech and language delay will be experienced.

• Delayed or Difficult Development: Autism is a serious issue which leads to difficulty and delay in learning of speech, self awareness and concepts from the early childhood. There are more such clinical issues which lead to speech and identity problems.  

• Problems During Birth or Pregnancy: Sometimes a child may suffer damage or change in the brain during the mother’s pregnancy, or during the child delivery. Such a condition is called dysarthria, and this may lead to identity speech and language delay.

• Insufficient or no Stimulation: Children learn things by simply copying adults. Infants also make noises and sounds by copying adults which later develop into mature speech with the support of language as their developing motor nerves help them coordinate with their understanding and copying skills. But if a child gets nothing to copy, which means no stimulation is caused to the brain then the child will not be able to learn to speak. Transforming the sounds emitted by the vocal cord to speech will not be possible for the child. Hence lack of stimulation or very low stimulation is a big problem leading to identity speech and language delay.

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To cope up with these issues and yet aid the child in learning language and self identity efficiently even after a delay is possible nowadays with the help of special training and classes provided by many doctors.

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