Surroundings Influance on Speech Development

The bachelor's thesis deals with influence of home environment on development of children's speech. It aims to describe present conditions of home environment, which completely influences the development of children?s language in the preschool age, and to identify whether children have higher level of speech when their parents read to them. The theory part deals with basic opinions on development of children's personality, and describes some present influences of environment on children, especially the influence of family and media (TV, computer). The next chapter explains the development of children's speech from birth to the end of preschool age. To the development are added possibilities of speech stimulation according to age of the child, includes using of a book as a device for development. The practical part deals with the research, which is focused on reading to children in the family, and the level of speech in the age group 3 - 4. It explains whether the reading has positive influence on quality of language. From the conclusion of research is obvious that parents read to their children relative regularly and children have average level of speech when their parents daily read to them