When do babies usually call mom and dad? Is there a relationship between babies' speech and intelligence?

When a mother is pregnant, she is looking forward to the baby calling her "Mom" for the rest of his life. Today, let's talk about when babies can usually pronounce syllables such as "Mom and Dad", and whether the early or late speech of a child has anything to do with intelligence.

Baby starts talking timeline

8 months - 1 and a half years

The time it takes for each baby to speak is different. Generally speaking, a child can say some simple polyphonic words, such as "Dad", at 8-9 months old; can say simple daily expressions at 1 year old; can express his or her needs with words at 1 and a half years old, but the words are not very clear. When a child is 2 years old, he or she can have simple conversations.

4-5 months

When your baby is 4-5 months old, he may occasionally say "Mom" or "Dad" for the first time. Although this will certainly make you extremely excited, he has not really associated these words with you. This will not be possible until he is about 1 year old.

6-9 months

Your baby's speech is growing. When he murmurs or makes sounds, it sounds like he has meaning. This is because he's using a similar tone and voice as when he talks to you. Read to your baby to encourage his babbling.

12-17 months

12-17 months old baby can use one or two words, and know their meaning. He will even practice changing the tone of voice, and raise the tone when asking questions, such as when the baby wants to be held: "Hold?" He gradually realizes the importance of speaking and the powerful power of language in expressing his needs.

1.5 to 2 years old

A baby between 18 and 2 years old may already have a vocabulary of 200 words, many of which are nouns. Between 18 and 20 months, babies learn words at a rate of 10 or more words a day. Some babies can learn a new word every half an hour, so you need to pay attention to your language expression.

Is late speaking a sign of language delay?

In fact, speaking and language are two different concepts. Language mainly refers to the understanding and application of language, while speaking is only a part of language, which refers to the use of various vocal organs to produce correct words. Therefore, speaking late does not necessarily mean delayed language development, but delayed language development generally leads to late speaking.

Generally speaking, the process of children learning to speak can be divided into five stages:

Most children will follow this pattern in their language development. It is worth noting that severe language and speech delays may be a symptom of a variety of diseases, including mental retardation, hearing loss, expressive language disorder, psychological deprivation, autism, selective aphasia, receptive aphasia, cerebral palsy, etc. Therefore, if a child is suspected of having severe language delay, he must seek medical attention as soon as possible without delay.

Is there a problem with the baby's intelligence if he speaks late?

Babies nowadays are mostly only children, usually they are with their mothers or grandmothers, there are fewer people to talk to, and the environment is not stimulating enough, so they talk late. In the past, adults were busy with their livelihoods and rarely took care of their children so carefully. As long as the children were not too late, most parents probably didn't care that much. Unlike today's parents, if the child is a little bit unusual, they will be very nervous, for fear that the child has some problems.

In fact, many times we adults worry too much. Individual differences among children determine that everyone's development speed is different. Some are fast and some are slow. You walk early and I talk early... Take the language development we have been talking about just now. Very few of these children who speak late are finally diagnosed with mental retardation or other serious problems. The vast majority of children can eventually learn to speak smoothly, and after a period of time their language level can reach the level of children of the same age, and their IQ is no lower than others.