What is the treatment of my child who talks later than his age?
Oct 22, 2025
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The Good Kangan Hospital Developmental Medicine Center provides 1:1 customized individual language therapy for late-talking children. Treatment is organized around necessary areas such as language comprehension, expressive power, pronunciation, and speech sound control after the speech therapist accurately evaluates the child's current developmental stage and language use ability. Train the child step by step to convey his or her feelings in words and to use language according to the situation.
In particular, the key to individual language therapy is to set the treatment direction in consideration of the characteristics of children according to various causes such as developmental disorders, intellectual disabilities, hearing problems, and oral structure abnormalities as well as language delays. In the early stages of treatment, the child's daily language use environment is checked through consultation with parents, and language stimulation methods at home are also presented.
After that, when the child's language skills improve by a certain level, a 'linguistic group program (small group language therapy)' is followed to develop language skills in real social situations. The program is operated with two to three children of similar age and language levels participating together to learn conversation skills naturally through role play, situational play, and topic conversation. The satisfaction of children and their guardians is high as it leads to improvement of sociality, cooperation, and self-esteem at the same time. It is evaluated as having a positive effect on the actual adjustment to kindergarten and elementary school life.
In social language, the ability to keep the order of speaking, express emotions properly, and understand and respond to other people's words is more important than the number of words or the speed of speech. In fact, although speaking, children who are awkward or often have conflicts with their peers often have difficulties in these social communication functions.
Lee Sang-jin, director of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, explained, "For children with language delays, it is important to take a step-by-step approach to group therapy at a time when they need to practice speaking in their peers." "Small group language therapy is an effective way to systematically learn the skills to build relationships with words and communicate emotions."
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
