THE INFLUENCE OF PARENTING STYLE ON THE LEVEL OF SPEECH DEVELOPMENT ON CHILDREN AGE 3-4 YEARS

In our practice we have been more often encountering a problem connected with children’s delayed speech development. There’s been an increase in the number of 3-year-old toddlers who haven’t formed their speech abilities or their speech abilities are evident delays and unsatisfactory. There are variable factors forming this tendency and for some cases even unknown factors, but it’s indisputable that the family is the main social cell in which the child is supposed to form its speech abilities. This study is to find an answer to the question whether and to what degree the emotional distance or the overwhelming attention and expectations are crucial to the forming and developing of the child’s speech.