Any tips on how to get a baby to talk?
Filed Under (Baby Talk) by Julie Andrews on 11-03-2010
Tagged Under : baby, talk, Tips
My girlfriend has a baby boy between 15 and 16 months old. My parents, her parents, her and I have been trying to get him to talk. I was just wondering what kind of stuff other people did to get their kids to start talking. If you have any ideas PLEASE, let me know.
You just have to talk to them. Ask them questions. Tell them what you are doing. Don’t use baby talk. Talk to them like they are an adult. This will stimulate them. In time, they will begin to talk. Some children develop slower than others. If they aren’t speaking by 2 it is important that you take the child to the Doctor to make sure there is no problem.
talk to them normaly, dont use baby talk, thell learn quicker and thell say it somewhut clearer
If the baby isn’t making any babbling cooing sounds at this age, and/or if he isn’t responding to others when they talk to him, it’s time to consult a professional.
He may have a hearing deficit or other developmental delay.
There is probably some sort of ECI (early childhood intervention) organization in your community that will do assessment and provide therapy if there is a problem.
You should be filling his world with a rich language environment and giving him lots of stimuli to respond to. Talk to him, sing to him, read to him, and expose him to other sounds and language through music recordings, TV, and life experiences (of course, make it age-appropriate) Say names of objects of everything you do and point or get him to touch it to relate what you are saying to the object (toys, facial features, food, etc., etc.)
I don’t want to alarm you, but if you are already doing that and aren’t getting any results from him at this age, it is time to seek professional diagnosis.
talk to them constantly and makes them ask for things instead of getting them something just because they want it
Talk to them as you would talk to anyone else and they will talk back when they are ready. Avoid all the ‘goo-goo’ talk – infants, like adults, appreciate meaningful speech!
To get your baby to talk, just talk to them a lot and repeat a lot of what youre saying and while you say words point to items so that the baby gets the full idea. this should work!
I talked to my daughter from the day she was born. Everything I did, I explained to her. “mommy is now washing your hands. we have to wash our hands because…”. This is the best way to do it.
I never pushed my daughter to talk. i taught her baby sign language. it got the message until she got the want to speak .
that being said she didn’t speak until 21 months and within 6 weeks she has gained 150 words and new ones every day.
some kids speak early others are a little late.
Talk to him all the time, sing to him, let him listen to music, have music on in the background all the time
Buy books that have sounds in them and nursery songs too.