Language delay in children .. Causes and Consequences (Part I)

Language delay in children .. Causes and Consequences (Part I)

Perhaps the most words that is warmly her parents and fear to hear, is the first word that utter their child and often the word 'Mama' or 'Papa', and that when a child at the age of eleven months, or a little less. And after a child utters this word happens progressive and rapid evolution in the language, and reflects the child multiple stages and up to the stage the ability to form sentences long and complex from a large number of words using accepted norms of language. Once the child reaches the age of six, until we find that the linguistic abilities have been completed or almost.

Some children, for reasons, which will be shown off later, fail to language acquisition may appear first word at the age of three years or so after the child reaches the age of six years and linguistic abilities of not more than a few simple words used in different situations. It may happen that delayed the acquisition of certain aspects of the language, or to have a slow and clear in the development stages of linguistic terms needs to be longer than other children to learn and acquire certain aspect in the language, such as the use of rules building sentence or word or the ability to express using sentences correct and long .

Turmoil linguistic or failure in language acquisition has manifestations and forms are many and varied and will shown off in detail in another article, and suffice here to say that turmoil linguistic may be on the side of understanding the language and verbal instructions any side Alastkabbala of language, may be on the side of production of language and the ability to express The linguistic includes both sides together.

When talking about the expressive language disorder may be inclusive of all expressive manifestations which includes the ability to form words and use rules phonology voice and use the rules of grammar and exchange and the ability to use language and used correctly.

Difference between language disorder and speech disorder before delving into the causes of unrest language, we refer to a difference between the language disorder and speech disorder or pronunciation of sounds of language has possession of child language abilities normal but he has difficulty or hardship in pronunciation, meaning that speech disorders are something different for language disorders in terms of causes, manifestations and deal with it in terms of evaluation and treatment also differs radically from language disorders.

The source of this difference is the difference happening between language and speech language is the ability of mental acquired communicate individual with others, a group of knowledge, which include the meanings and vocabulary and rules organized by or seized by, and this language is generated in the mind of the individual and being able to produce and understand phrases and sentences audio or written.

While speech is only the movement of members of pronunciation in the production of language sounds as symbols spoken as a result of the movement of members of pronunciation. And speech and means of expression for the language and there are other means of expression is verbal signal such as writing, hand and body language and other means of expression.

Cofactors to learn and acquire language

Language acquisition and development in children can not be done in isolation from the availability of certain factors and conditions illustrated in the following figure:

Figure above shows us the range of factors that enable the child to language acquisition and learning automatically without requiring special assistance, and these factors are:

- Sound sensory abilities, and most important of these senses is vastly superior sense of hearing and sight.

- Sound mental capacity. It is known that the higher the IQ of the child the greater the ability to understand what he hears from the phrases and sentences (or read when learning to read) and increased its outcome linguistic and evolved capacity to appreciate the relationship between words in a sentence and thus evolve its linguistic quickly. Believes a large group of researchers in the field of education and psychology that mental growth is linked to a large extent linguistic growth when the child the more evolved linguistic abilities whenever evolved mental abilities.

- Readiness innate language acquisition. Called by some, named «Queen linguistic» a willingness innate when the child to learn the language and includes ready mental or mental can the brain to function in learning language by dealing with perceptions (information) contained to the brain from different senses and in particular senses of hearing and consideration, and the ability to classify, store and retrieve this information or perceptions, and also includes the ability to observe and imitate others in pronunciation or repeating language models.

- Stimulating linguistic environment. Language is human behavior, not gaining in isolation from the others, particularly the child's family and those around him.

Interaction and integration of these factors when the child being able to acquire language, by contrast, the absence or weakness of one factor of these factors should be left bad influence in a child's ability to acquire language and communicative performance in general. It is proper regard early intervention and effective to help the child language acquisition or ease of language disorder suffered by the child to the point that he can communicate with those around him.

Causes of language disorders in children:

We arrived in our conversation to talk about the reasons for language disorders in children, beginning to point out that it is not always easy to determine the cause of the suffering of the child from a disorder of language, or the failure to learn and acquire language, there are a number of cases remains the cause is unknown even with follow accurate means of diagnosis and evaluation.

We traditionally have specialists with speech and language disorders that language disorders are divided into two main groups, namely:

A - basic language disorders or specific.

B - secondary language disorders.

In the first group, we find a group of children suffering from disorders in the only language without suffering from another disorder, has prevailed in the past the term Developmental Aphasia or Dysphasia to refer to this group of children. Where similar language disorder when this group of children with language disorder that we find when adults who have lost their language abilities or hit these capabilities disorder after they hurt a certain (bleeding or clotting, for example) in the areas of language in the brain and in the hemisphere left when the vast the majority of people.