But it also happens that the child begins to babble later than generally accepted deadlines, or generally remains silent for 2-3 years, replacing verbal communication with gestures and a muffled "moo". Mothers often face this problem, not knowing what to do in this case.
The reason for this behavior can be both congenital pathologies of the oral cavity, and insufficient communication with adults. But whatever lies at the root of the problem, parents, of course, tend to solve it as soon as possible. Let's look at the main ways of how to teach the child to talk faster and try to learn them in practice.
How to teach a child to talk?
In this work you will be helped by various exercises that are built on a game basis:
- correct pronunciation of the main vowels and consonant sounds (parents or the teacher show the child a picture on which is depicted a droning locomotive, rustling leaves of the tree, etc.);
- for the development of the articulatory apparatus of toddlers 1-2 years is useful to teach to imitate the voices of birds and animals;
- pronunciation of three or more syllables for training speech breathing (you can start with a simple song like "la-la-la");
- development of fine motor skills , which helps to talk the baby. It can be modeling from clay or finger games;
- child 2-3 years can tell a fascinating story or already familiar to him a fairy tale, interrupting it at the most interesting place and suggesting to come up with a continuation.
How should I talk with the child correctly?
There are a few simple requirements, which, as a rule, help to talk a silent child:
- Instead of asking "say," "repeat," build dialogues with the baby, making pauses where there should be his cues;
- playing the different games together, say your actions ("I take the blocks and build the tower", "Want to help me?", "Give me the blue cube and I'll take the yellow one", "You see how tall the tower turned out!". Ask the crumb questions, even if he does not answer them yet;
- give your phrases emotional coloring, make out speech interjections - children like expression;
in the process of communication do not skimp on tactile contact and often call the child affectionate words and by name: he must always feel your support and love; - Do not "lisp", pronounce all words and sentences correctly, clearly and distinctly. The kid should hear only beautiful and competent speech, in order to build correctly his own phrases in the future.
As practice shows, to teach young children to talk, you just need to give it a little time - enough will be a 15-minute lesson per day. If the child is older than 3-4 years, this problem still exists, it makes sense to turn to a speech therapist.