HOMEOPATHIC STRATEGIES FOR SPEECH DELAY

HOMEOPATHIC STRATEGIES FOR SPEECH DELAY

WHAT IS SPEECH DELAY?

Speech and language skills start with an infant’s first cooes.As months go by babies start to babble,which leads to a joyful moment for parents:hearing their children first understand words.A typical 2-year-old can say 50 words and form 2-word sentences.By age 3 they can know up to 1000 words.A Speech delay is when a toddler doesn’t meet these typical speech milestones.

CAUSES OF SPEECH DELAY

Here are some common underlying causes of speech delays

Oral impairment

many kids with speech delays have oral motor problems which is a problems in the areas of the brain responsible for speech. This make it hard to coordinate the lips tongue and jaw to make speech sounds. These children also might have other oral motor problems such as Feeding problem

Developmental speech and language problem

Some speech and language disorder involved brain function and may be a sign of learning disability. Your child may or may have trouble producing speech sounds using spoken language to communicate or understanding what other people are communicating. Speech and language problems are often the earliest sign of learning disability.

Hearing loss

A toddler who can’t hear well or hears unclear speech may struggle to form words. Hearing loss is often missed but it’s easy to spot. One sign is if your child does not respond when you say a person’s or object’s name but does when you use gestures. However sign of hearing loss can be very subtle. Sometimes a delay in speech or language might be the only clear sign.

Lack of stimulation

We learn to speak from those around us . Therefore it’s hard for children to naturally pick up speech or words if they are not actively engaged with language.Lack of verbal stimulation can keep a child from reaching developmental milestones.

Neurological problems

Certain neurological problems like cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, and traumatic brain injury can affect the muscles needed for speaking

Autism spectrum disorder disorder

Speech-language and communication problems can be early signs of autism

Tips to support your child’s speech development

  • Response to your baby’s coos and babbling with smiles and sound
  • Play simple games like peekaboo and Patty cake with your baby
  • Talk to your children a lot. Even narrating what you’re doing can help
  • Read books aloud. If your child loses interest just talk about the pictures
  • Sing to your child and play music. Learning new songs helps them learn new words and build memory listening and expression skills
  • Expand on what your child says for example if they say Pokey you can say here is Pokey
  • Describe what your child is doing, feeling and hearing during the day. For example you are hungry
  • Ask your child lot of question
  • Don’t correct grammar mistake.Instead, Start model good grammar by saying phrases correctly
  • It might feel silly, but start talking to your child from birth.Even, newborns benefit from hearing speech.

Homeopathic medicines for speech delay.

Argentum Metallicum

Useful remedy for stammering in nervous person who gets extremely anxious during public speaking. great craving for sweets

SPIGELIA

It is beneficial for a mild stutter at the beginning of a sentence often followed by a smooth speech

CAUSTICUM

It is prescribed when emotional excitability causes stammering twitching of facial muscles or problems with vocal cords

STAPHYSAGRIA

It can help reduce social anxiety that often causes tamarind such as when the stammer only appears during interaction with strangers or authority figures

NUX-VOM

It is well suited to children in home stammering results from extreme stress or overwork. There is abuse and over indulgence

LYCOPODIUM

It can help stammer as well as depression memory weakness and sleep problems. It is especially useful if the patient struggles with the last few words of a sentence

STRAMONIUM

It can be used when Stammering is severe and the person heavily distorts their facial muscles to speak . Suited to in violent nature kids and adults it is helpful when words come out with great efforts

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