According to experts, who state that children's development process should be followed closely, parents need to pay attention to many points. Details of developmental delay can be seen in many titles. Deficiencies can be observed in language development, motor development, social development, and cognitive development. For example, your child may have trouble forming sentences of 2-3 words suitable for his age. They may be lagging behind in language development compared to their peers. In his physical development, he may be behind in motor skills such as running, walking, holding, and jumping.
According to experts, the most important and more common problem is the delay in social communication. Your child may not be able to communicate with people their own age, shouting, crying, and attacking to express their wishes. By bringing your child in this situation together with their peers, you teach them how to communicate. However, if the developmental delay is in the mental field, you should pay attention to getting support from individual development programs.
What are the clues of developmental delay? What should you do?
If you are unsure of certain skills and think that your child is lagging behind, you should seek help from a child development specialist. The child development specialist who will administer the Denver II Developmental Screening Test will determine in which areas and how much retardation your child has. With a work program suitable for this, the studies continue until the developmental delay is eliminated.
The most important thing you should not do when you find out that your child has a developmental delay is not to believe that this situation will improve over time and not take action. Moreover, day by day, the development gap between your child and his/her peers will gradually widen and it will become more difficult to resolve. As with any problem, it should not be overlooked that early diagnosis is very important. Developmental delay is a problem that can be solved by child development specialists.
In fact, every parent should take care to have their child, who has a normal developmental process, go through the control of a child development specialist every 6 months, even if he does not see any signs of developmental delay. Developmental delay, which you missed but can be detected by the specialist, is diagnosed early and intervened without major problems.
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