0-6 months

WHAT A BABY DOES

  • Your baby responses to sounds, looks or turns its head to the source.
  • Produces sounds

WHAT A PARENT SHOULD DO

  • talk to it with calm and warm way
  • Sing and laugh with it
  • Explain the sounds that it hears
  • Give names to the familiar people and things you are using in your everyday life.
  • Tell to it what are you doing

WHEN YOU SHOULD WORRY

  • Observe if your baby responds to sounds. If not check its hearing.
  • Seek for help if your baby while trying to communicate doesn’t have eye contact.

Until 12 months

WHAT A BABY SHOULD DO

  • Understands simple orders
  • Says “mum’ and “dad”
  • Responds when it hears its name

WHAT A PARENT SHOULD DO

  • Play with your voice the babies like it very much, the melody of your speech helps the baby understand and use his/her tongue more effectively.
  • Help your baby discover the joy of communication, encourage every type of mutual conciliation (laughter, smile, observation, expressions of the face etc.)
  • Help it to understand that: <>

SOS

  • In this stage television offers minimum stimulus to the child.Don’t let him to sit and watch for a long time because it doesn’t promote  real communication.

Until 18 months

WHAT A BABY SHOULD DO

  • Understands simple instructions and sentences
  • Gives names to familiar things
  • His/her vocabulary is enriched

WHAT A PARENT SHOULD DO

  • Talk to it regular, using grammatical right sentences and simple wordsbut not  ‘baby talk’.
  • Give him/herbooks from cardboard or fabric which are suitable for his/her age and discuss colors, shapes (which tend to  raise his/her interest.

WHEN YOU SHOULD WORRY

  • Ask for help if your child stops talking, if his speech remains stagnant or presents indications that he/ she is getting worse.

Until 2 years old

WHAT A BABY SHOULD DO

  • Understands complex instructions
  • Says his/her name
  • Uses  2-3 word sentences

WHAT A PARENT SHOULD DO

  • Enrich his/her  vocabulary
  • Explain him the words that he/she doesn’t understand
  • Repeat the word which he/she doesn’t says right but don’t ask him to repeat it ever time.

WHEN YOU SHOULD WORRY

  • If his/her vocabulary, except from ‘’mum’ and ‘’dad’ ’,has a few words.
  • If his/her speech is not clear
  • If he/she doesn’t combine 2 words to form simple phrases and sentences.

Until 3 years old

WHAT A BABY SHOULD DO

  • Understands simple stories
  • He/she uses sentences
  • Asks questions
  • Uses plural and intentions

WHAT A PARENT SHOULD DO

  • Teach your child to tell stories, help him to clear his mind and his emotions.
  • Encourage him/her to abandon the bottle and the pacifier, if he/she still uses them.

WHEN YOU SHOULD WORRY

  • When his speech remains poor
  • Uses a few verbs or no articles or objectives
  • He/she doesn’t use plural
  • He/she doesn’t do simple sentences

Until 4 years old

WHAT A BABY SHOULD DO

  • The speech of your child resembles more the speech of adults concerning the grammar and syntax.

WHAT A PARENT SHOULD DO

  • Read stories together and retell them to each other. In this way you encourage a positive attitude to reading and language (oral and written).
  • Children need your example :let them see you to read.

WHEN YOU SHOULD WORRY

  • It’s difficult to start a sentence or if he/she repeats syllables or words.
  • Uses small and not correct organized sentences.
  • He’s speech isn’t understandable every time.
  • He can’t recall simple and recent events.