Question
A child is not speaking, and this situation has been ongoing for some time, parents are worried and hope doctors can provide advice.
Answer
A child’s inability to speak may be caused by the following reasons: Firstly, delayed intellectual development may lead to incomplete language function development in children, resulting in unclear articulation, a lack of vocabulary, poor self-expression abilities, poor understanding skills, and an inability to perform actions in response to parental instructions, with intellectual functions significantly below the level of their peers. Secondly, language delay is also a common cause. Children with language delay can only produce some syllables after one year old and are unable to form words or have a very limited vocabulary. By the age of two or three, these children are unable to describe what they see or express their wishes using complete sentences, but they can understand what parents say. Most children who do not speak are caused by language delay.