<![CDATA[According to data from the Indonesian Ministry of Health, 13 percent to 18 percent of toddlers in Indonesia experienced growth and developmental disorders in 2020 (Ministry of Health, 2020). Speech delays in children are influenced by various factors such as the child's biology, environment and parenting patterns, screen time and family sociodemographics. The method used is a literature review from Google Scholar, PubMed, and Science Direct, resulting in 11 relevant articles, consisting of 4 national articles and 7 international articles. The results show that children's biological factors are very important for children's language development which is influenced by the maturity of the central nervous system, especially the Broca and Wernicke areas in the brain that function for language processing and sentence structure. Environmental factors show that children with low language stimulation and limited communication have a higher risk of experiencing speech delays compared to children with screen time (gadget use) of more than two hours per day. Sociodemographic factors show that low maternal education levels and limited parenting time increase children's speech delays.]]>
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