Patient's question:
My son is now two years and four months old. He doesn't speak anything, neither do his parents. He understands everything, but he just doesn't speak. What should we do?Doctor's answer:
Many 12-month-old babies say their first word to understand its exact meaning. The previous year, they have been preparing for this moment. They practice pronunciation through babbling, murmuring, and humming, gradually learning to control their sounds. In daily interactions with parents and caregivers, we should develop language comprehension, linking the pronunciation of words to their meaning, which is mastering semantics. Through this interaction, we can learn the grammar rules of sentences. Babies understand tone better than words, but their ability to understand and express synchronizes by the age of one and a half.