What are the symptoms of language delay?

The symptoms of delayed language development need to be taken seriously. Clinically, there are expressive disorders and receptive language disorders. Patients learn language very slowly and often show behavioral problems such as anxiety, depression, withdrawal, and disobedience.

1. Idiopathic language development disorder is clinically divided into two types: expressive language disorder and receptive language disorder. The former can understand language but cannot express it, while the latter has limited understanding and expression of language. When the child begins to learn to speak, language defects will be revealed. The child can make some syllables but cannot form words. He cannot remember common words, his vocabulary is very poor, and he cannot use complete sentences to describe what he needs, so his sentences are very difficult to understand.

2. Children with this disorder learn language very slowly, often 2 to 3 times slower than normal children, and their language skills are obviously backward. For example, they cannot call dad or mom at the age of one, and cannot speak complete sentences at the age of four.

3. Children with idiopathic language development disorder may not have obvious psychological and emotional abnormalities in the preschool stage, and they are still lively and happy. After going to school, due to difficulties in language communication, children often have behavioral problems such as anxiety, depression, withdrawal, and disobedience. These children often have learning difficulties, mainly difficulties in reading, comprehension and calculation.

4. Since these children have normal inner language development, they can participate in creative games and draw. Have certain interpersonal skills, such as using facial expressions and actions to express one's needs. He can show attachment to his mother and play with other children. When the children were given intelligence tests, the verbal part was poor, but the operational part was normal, showing a dissociation between verbal IQ and operational IQ.