Delayed speech is one of the typical signs of autism. However, children who are slow to speak are not always autistic. To better understand whether children who are slow to speak are autistic, please refer to the article below.

Speech therapy in Vietnam is growing and proving to be an indispensable field to overcome difficulties for special children, including: autism, cerebral palsy, ADHD, speech delay, developmental delay, hearing loss or lisp, stuttering..., helping them improve their communication skills and language development through fun and interesting lessons.

Up to 20% of children are late talkers or use words more slowly than their peers. Some children even exhibit behavioral disorders due to tantrums due to their inability to express what they want to say.

A child is diagnosed with language delay when he or she pronounces words well, but can only put two words together. A child with delayed speech means that the child can use words and phrases to express himself or herself, but it is difficult to understand. These two abilities need to be distinguished in order to have timely intervention.

If delayed speech in children is not intervened promptly, it will cause children to suffer many disadvantages in daily activities, communication, and even easily ignore accompanying diseases. Therefore, parents need to clearly understand what to do when their children are delayed in speech to help them develop normally like children of the same age.

The following physical development assessment characteristics of the Vietnamese Ministry of Health for children from 13 to 48 months old will help parents monitor and evaluate their children's development most accurately.

Many parents have difficulty assessing their child's speech delay. Is the child's speech delay temporary and can wait a while longer, or is it a real medical condition that requires intervention from medical professionals? Equipping parents with knowledge helps them recognize the warning signs of delayed speech and language development in their child, thereby helping them make better decisions.

Early speaking skills help children succeed in developing reading, writing and communication skills throughout childhood and later life. Therefore, in the early years of life, parents should spend time teaching their children to speak.

Normally, if children are not born with diseases that affect speech development such as mental retardation, autism, short lingual frenulum... after 1-2 years of listening to relatives and people around them talk, they will naturally form speech.

Healthy, intelligent children often develop language very quickly. Many studies show that children with good language often have developed intelligence. But in reality, there are children who do not develop language normally according to their age. Therefore, how to overcome language disorders in children is a question that many parents are interested in.

Talking is the most powerful way for a child to interact with the world around them. Speech development is important to a child's development. If a child cannot communicate verbally, he or she can easily become discouraged and even socially withdrawn.