After going to the infant checkup for 24 months, I felt agitated. I was worried because my child didn’t speak many words around 20 months old and didn’t want to say things that he was good at (mommy or dad), and he got annoyed when asked to do it, that continued until the age of 24 months.
He was also advised to do speech therapy for infants and toddlers. However, I have no intention of doing speech therapy yet because
- Language comprehension is good: When I say something, he understand everything and do what I say.
- Express your opinion: He usually points with his fingers, expresses this and that, and shakes his head when he doesn’t like it. Good things are nodding or raising one hand and saying yes.
- Good reactions to eye contact.
When I looked it up, it seems that they see it for as long as 30 months, up to 36 months, and if there is a language delay up to 36 months, they start treatment.
Even if the money is paid for treatment, time and manpower are the most problematic, and university hospitals have long waits and centers have not been verified, and they have to find the right place.
Look at Instagram shorts, there are a lot of problems if you can’t speak a few words at the age of several months, but those videos also fuel anxiety. If you look at it, it’s almost an account run by a development center.
I know that less word speech is the basis for the diagnosis of autism, so it is important to check language development ability, but if autism is not suspected, I wonder if I should get language therapy until I turn three.
My child said the first word before he turned 1. It was Mamma. He did Mom and Dad did it before he turned 1.
A few months later, he said this, that, and after a long time, he did MungMung(He like dogs).
He pointed his finger a little early.
He is not 30 months old yet, so I will wait a little longer. I heard that pianist Cho Seong-jin did not speak until he was five years old (about 3-4 years old) and suddenly started speaking in sentences. I think children who tend to be perfectionist talk a little late. Even my child practiced when he was alone, not when he taught dori until he was good at it..