The number of speech disorders in children is growing every year. In connection with this unfavorable trend, the urgency of the problem of preventing speech disorders in children is becoming global.
Instructions
Step 1
Remember, the more you work with your child and the development of his speech, the faster you can recognize the problem. Here are some things that should alert you.
Step 2
Pay attention to how often your baby makes sounds similar to cooing, gurgling, listen to how he babbles. At twelve months, he should pay attention to the speaker, or at least imitate elementary sounds.
Step 3
Make sure that your baby's vocabulary is at least fifty words by the age of one and a half. At two years old, he must use combinations of two words, and at three years old, make up short phrases.
Step 4
First, check if the baby can pronounce vowel sounds in isolation from others. Fly like airplanes, pulling at the same time: "Oo-oo-oo." Let the baby see your mouth. After several attempts, show the airplane in the book, ask how it buzzes, and see if it can make that sound.
Step 5
It's the same with other vowels. By the age of two, words and onomatopoeia such as "ku-ku", "mu-mu" and the like must be present in speech. Otherwise, contact a speech therapist, he will advise you on how to do it.
Step 6
At the first signs of a speech defect, perform a series of simple exercises with the baby at a slow pace 10-15 times daily. For example, ask him to squeeze a small pencil with his teeth so that it is across the dentition, and then move the tip of the tongue up and down the pencil. Or place a ball of bread on the tip of your child's tongue and ask him to swallow forcefully while holding the ball.
Step 7
If you are worried about your child's speech development, talk to your pediatrician. Perhaps this problem will have to be solved with the help of joint work of orthodontists, pediatric dentists, as well as speech therapists and teachers in preschool institutions. With their help, you can, as early as possible, identify in the baby myofunctional disorders that contribute to the occurrence of speech pathology, and take effective measures to eliminate them.
