| When the baby is about seven weeks old he | | | | same sound is uttered twice. |
| begins to show that he is aware of the sounds | | | | This doesn't mean that your child's speech isn't |
| that he makes. What's important, he really likes | | | | interesting at this age. Naturally, the way he |
| making them. Speech therapy for children will not | | | | "speaks" is so much different than they way of |
| be needed if your child started making sounds at | | | | adults. You'll be happy to know that your child |
| this age. | | | | uses a greater variety of sounds when not crying |
| And so many of them! Some mothers say that | | | | than when crying. That's because he makes more |
| they could hear Chinese or even Arabic sounds in | | | | nasal sounds in his crying. The consonant sounds |
| their child's babbling. It doesn't matter what | | | | (almost all of them) are made with the use of the |
| nationality your child is. All children make the same | | | | lips. These are the p, b and m sounds. |
| sounds at this age.These sounds are the result of | | | | Child's speech development is postively influenced |
| random activity. | | | | by this vocal play and babbling. It affords practice |
| Air passes from the lungs over the vocal folds, | | | | in articulation - in using his tongue, lips, jaw, and |
| producing the laryngeal tone; this basic sound is | | | | palate for the production of sounds. Later some |
| shaped into every voiced sound in the English | | | | of these sounds will be used in true speech. Vocal |
| language-or any other language-by the activity of | | | | play is natural and doesn't mean there's something |
| the jaw, lips, tongue, and palate. These voices are | | | | wrong with your child. Most likely no speech |
| very random because they're made by random | | | | therapy for children will be needed for him. |
| movements of the articulators. Very rarely the | | | | |