Speech Therapy For Children

When the baby is about seven weeks old he begins to show that he is aware of the sounds that he makes. What's important, he really likes making them. Speech therapy for children will not be needed if your child started making sounds at this age.

And so many of them! Some mothers say that they could hear Chinese or even Arabic sounds in their child's babbling. It doesn't matter what nationality your child is. All children make the same sounds at this age.These sounds are the result of random activity.
Air passes from the lungs over the vocal folds, producing the laryngeal tone; this basic sound is shaped into every voiced sound in the English language-or any other language-by the activity of the jaw, lips, tongue, and palate. These voices are very random because they're made by random movements of the articulators. Very rarely the same sound is uttered twice.

This doesn't mean that your child's speech isn't interesting at this age. Naturally, the way he "speaks" is so much different than they way of adults. You'll be happy to know that your child uses a greater variety of sounds when not crying than when crying. That's because he makes more nasal sounds in his crying. The consonant sounds (almost all of them) are made with the use of the lips. These are the p, b and m sounds.

Child's speech development is postively influenced by this vocal play and babbling. It affords practice in articulation - in using his tongue, lips, jaw, and palate for the production of sounds. Later some of these sounds will be used in true speech. Vocal play is natural and doesn't mean there's something wrong with your child. Most likely no speech therapy for children will be needed for him.