Resumen

LOPEZ BETANCOURT, Marcia et al. Desarrollo del lenguaje en el niño cubano menor de 18 meses. Rev Cubana Pediatr [online]. 2000, vol.72, n.1, pp.32-39. ISSN 0034-7531.

We suggest that child speech must be assessed for diferent reasons: first, because of speech is one of the indicators of child´s integral development, second, to detect difficulties in this process, and third, to determine children in risk. As there aren´t available references about child speech development in our country, we carried out a nation-wide descriptive and crossover research, applied to health children aged 6 months and 5 years in 8 provinces of the country. In the case of this paper, we proceed to analyze a group of children under 18 months. We found that more than 50 % of Cuban children emit two-sylabed sounds to months, they use a gibberish to 8 months, understand single orders around 9 months, and know parts of the body to 12 months. There is some advance in speech behaviour of Cuban children compared to that stablished in development scales used in Cuba.

Palabras clave : CHILD SPEECH; CUBA.

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