Will possibly be found early childhood, which had difficulty in speaking, not capable of understanding spoken language, is unable to express heart’s content with the quantity, talking is not clear, stutter, etc. Related to the above problems following the author tries to discuss the development of language in early childhood.

As we all know that language is an essential tool for communicating to everyone. A child will develop the ability to get along (social skills) with others. Mastery of social skills in a social environment begins with a mastery of language skills. Without one’s language will not be able to communicate with others. Children can express his thoughts using the language, so others can catch what he was thinking by the child.

a. Factors affecting language problems in children
By Syamsu Joseph (2004) the factors that influence children’s language development is the health, intelligence, socioeconomic status, gender, and family relations.

1) health factors. Health is a factor that greatly influenced the development language of children, especially in their early life. If the child at the age of the first two years has the experience frequent ill then the child likely will experience delays or difficulties in language development.

2) Intelligence. Child’s language development can be seen from the level intelegency, child language development faster, in general, have normal intelligence or above normal.

3) socioeconomic status families. Some studies show that children from poor families experienced delays in language development compared with children who come from a better family economic status, this may be due to differences in intelligence or the whole learning (allegedly poor families paying less attention to her child language development), or both.

4) Gender. In the first year there was no difference between female and male vocalizations, but at the age of two girls showed a faster development than boys.

5) The relationship of the family. A healthy relationship between parent and child (full attention and affection from their parents) to facilitate language development of children, and so otherwise unhealthy relationships can cause children’s language development tend to experience stagnation or disorders, such as stammering in speech, it is not clear in reveal the words, feeling afraid to express opinions, and said harsh or rude.

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