It is natural, when parents are excited about how the development of their child's most important skills is going on. If you care about this issue, then you can say that you are a good parent and in your family there are enough favorable conditions for the correct and timely development of the child. In order to find out if there are any deviations in the development of your baby, if the child does not speak a year, you need to answer the questions below.
What do you mean by "talking"? Preconditions for the development of speech in the child are born in the very first months of his life. First there is a "walk". With it, your baby begins to try to make sounds, trying in this way to test his speech apparatus and imitate the sounds of the speech of others. Basically it happens in moments of strong emotions, when a child sees one of the parents, enjoys walking or any other new impressions, wants to eat. Most often, the humming manifests itself at the age of about two months. After this begins the stage of babbling - in it the baby is already beginning to realize his speech and tries to reproduce the speech of adults more accurately. The further development of the child's speech and the transition to the stage of a fully-fledged conscious conversation depends only on his environment, i.e. from mom, dad, nanny, other people. If you constantly talk with the baby, thus pushing him to a dialogue, then his development will go faster. Child development is considered normal if by the age of one to one and a half years he already has the most simple skills of controlled speech.
What is your child's gender? It is generally accepted that girls are ahead of boys, albeit not much, in terms of the speed of development of speech skills. For this reason, if you have a girl and by the end of her first year she does not have the simplest speech skills, then perhaps you should take your child to a doctor or a psychologist. Boys often can not control their speech until the age of two. Of course, that each case is individual and in many respects depends both on the innate abilities of the baby, and on the actions of those close to him.
What temperament does the child have? Often unreasonably early alarm parents of phlegmatic sluggish children who really develop slightly more slowly than the one-year-olds sound alarm. However, it should be taken into account that children with this temperament learn everything thoroughly and when he speaks, his speech will be more correct and meaningful. Their parents should just have patience, because with their rash actions they can scare the child, forcing him to lock himself up, which will really slow down his development.
If the answers to the questions clearly show you that there are any deviations in the development of the child, then, of course, you should not sit still on the spot. If your child does not speak at all, the best choice is to take him to a specialist. In other cases, when development simply for some reason has stopped at a certain stage, you can try to cope with the problem yourself.
First of all - speak in the presence of the child as much as possible. Call clearly, loudly and clearly objects to which the baby is looking. If you are going somewhere with the child - tell him what you are doing, ask him, encourage him to dialogue by all means. For example, you can ask him by taking one toy in each hand: "Will you play with this toy (show at first) or with this (show on the second)?". To make a choice, the child will need to show on the toy he likes and name it.
As much as possible, encourage the child to talk, rejoice at his words. Do not interrupt in any way it, let it experience from communication only joy. Do not imitate him and do not correct it explicitly, but try to clearly and clearly pronounce the words he says incorrectly.
If a child a year unwillingly talks with you, then he can much happily join with a dialogue with his peers. Try to give the kid more opportunity. This in any case will contribute to the development of speech.