Relation Between the State at Perinatal Term, Condition of Bringing Up as well as Development at 4 and at 10 Months Old and Speech Delay at 18 Months Old -Retrospective Study on Delayed Speech Children Found at the Time of Group Health Exmination for 18 Months Old Children-

Abstract

Four hundred and fourteen out of 2, 399 children were classified into delayed speech group at the time of group health exmination at the age of one-and-a-half years in Toda city in the last three years. In order to investigate the effects of way and method of birth and nursing to the language development, retrospective study was carried out using the records of the group health exmination. The results were as follows: 1) Children having suffered from heavy jaundice at neonatal period were found to be delayed in speech. 2) The older the father, children were found to be the more delayed in speech . 3) The lower the school education of father, children were found to be the more delayed in speech 4) The lower the school education of mother, children were found to be the more delayed in speech. 5) Children being shy of strangers at the age of 10 months were found to be delayed in speech. 6) Children being unable to crawl at the age of 10 months were found to be delayed in speech. 7) Children being unable to stand supporting by themself s on something at the age of 10 months were found to be delayed in speech.