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Guide to promote your child’s language development skills

Dr Ajay Sharma

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Key Takeaways:

  • Language development milestones from 6-8 weeks to 3-4 years
  • How to support children’s language development:
    • Communication- Connect by talking to your baby about what they see, with eye contact and closeness.
    • Response- Respond positively to your baby, expand on their words, and reduce noise so they can hear you clearly.
    • Simplify speech- Use gestures, emphasise key words, pause for their response, and demonstrate as you speak.
    • Everyday activities as teaching tools- Share picture books and discuss daily activities, like sorting laundry.

The infographic above is a guide to promote your child’s language development skills.

Before a child begins to learn any particular language, he/she learns to interact in a number of ways. A child’s ways of communication may include hand gestures, cooing noises, facial expressions or babbling sounds to interact with their immediate environment. In order to ensure your child progressively becomes an active communicator, parents must help provide both the motivation and environment to sharpen speech and communication abilities in the child. Acquiring language skills Afterall is key for learning, writing and social-communicative skill development in your child. Use the above guide to promote your child’s language development skills.

Do check out our language booklet that explains ways of engaging your child in communication through language development. Additionally, you can also check these videos on speech, language and communication. 

Acknowledgements: We thank our volunteers Ms.Sailaja Tadimeti & Mr.Krishnaji Devalkar for the time and effort taken towards translating this content from English to Telugu.

If you have questions about Autism, Down Syndrome, ADHD, or other intellectual disabilities, or have concerns about developmental delays in a child, the Nayi Disha team is here to help. For any questions or queries, please contact our FREE Helpline at 844-844-8996. You can call or what’s app us. Our counselors speak different languages including English, Hindi, Malayalam, Gujarati, Marathi, Telugu, and Bengali.

DISCLAIMER: Please note that this guide is for information purposes only. Please consult a qualified health practitioner for safe management

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