Stimulate their language through fun activities.
The process
According to a study carried out in Barcelona, between 18 and 24 months of age a great change occurs in the areas of the brain related to language: they cover themselves with myelin, a substance that allows them to mature and endow the individual with the ability to speak, before which it can only babble.
How to stimulate it?
Although he is a baby and neurologically he is not capable of emitting words, speak to him during the phase called pre-language, which is from zero to 11 months. Tell him what you do while you are close to him, what is around him? For now he cannot speak, but he understands much of what you say to him so that he acquires a vocabulary whose usefulness will be seen when he has the power to verbalize it, from the year and a half of age. As soon as you notice that he wants to emit words (at seven months) correspond to him, and as his first attempts appear, around 18 months, and his first phases, around 24 months, talk more <> with him. Do not mock or reproduce their pronunciation errors. Play songs with easy-to-learn lyrics, tell short stories and stimulate him sensory.
When to seek professional help?
If after two years he does not emit any word and also shows strange behaviors (evasion or lack of eye contact and little or no response to loud noises?), It is necessary to submit him to a medical review.
Help it grow!
The transition from childhood to childhood presents challenges that are easy or difficult to overcome. If your child assumes that leaving the diaper or bottle is an achievement to which he is entitled and for which he has all his necessary abilities, he will want to make it his own, and that will be the incentive that will lead him to new goals in the future.