The first part of the text presents definitions, divisions, etiology and pathomechanisms of delayed speech development. Parenting styles and research on the impact of high technologies on speech development were also presented. In the next stage of the article, the authors discussed the results of research on: forms of spending free time with children; forms of spending parents’ free time; how a child spends time when parents are busy; use of TV at home during the day, ways of parents coping with their child’s sadness; watching cartoons while eating meals; patterns of everyday life using high technologies; parents’ approach to reading to their child; parents’ awareness of the impact of high technologies on the child’s speech development.