Should a 3-Year-Old Child Who Doesn’t Speak Much Go to the Hospital for a Check-Up?

There are many reasons why a baby might talk late, such as the lack of communication between adults and the baby, which limits the child’s practice in speaking and thus affects language development; some parents may overly indulge and cater to their baby’s needs, always responding to their gestures and expressions, neglecting language training, leading to a habit of using gestures instead of speech, which in turn slows down the child’s language development; conditions like intellectual disability, cerebral palsy, hearing impairments, infantile autism, central nervous system damage or dysfunction can lead to delayed speech and may also present with other corresponding abnormalities. Mildly intellectually disabled children may start speaking 1 to 3 years later than normal.
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