The first walk of a sweet child. It touches everyone around and wants to listen to it again and again. But not every mother knows what is behind these caressing sounds when the baby should start to walk and whether to panic if the child does not walk. The first sounds are an important stage in the development of the child, both verbal and emotional.
First, we'll determine what is the child's walk, how to determine it, when the child starts to walk and how to distinguish the walk from other types of onomatopoeia. It is interesting that children belonging to different language groups begin to speak with the same sounds. This kind of speech activity as a humming, is called so because of the similarity with pigeon walking. The baby begins to make vowel sounds, then a guttural speech appears. After the child clearly pronounces "a", "o", "y", "e", "u", "s", he will begin to combine sounds in "aga-ha", "guu", "agugu" etc. This action gives him great pleasure, because he is "played" with the lips, throat and tongue.
What time does the child start to walk?
By the time of the birth of the first speech skills, the kid has already learned to adapt to the outside world, recognizes others, answers them with a smile when communicating. The kid needs to be given as much attention, talk, and not just take care of him. The child needs a positive reaction of adults to the sounds he makes, then the walk will be repeated more often. You can arrange real conversations with the baby, only exaggerating the sounds and focusing on the setting of the lips, stick out the tongue. The child attentively observes the adults, and soon copies their pronunciation. Pediatricians and narrow-profile specialists established a regulatory period, to which the functions of the brain maturing, responsible for the beginning of spoken language, mature. Thus, the child's breathing appears at the age of 2-3 months, when the baby confidently holds his head , smiles. This important stage in the formation of speech lasts until five to seven months.
How to teach a child to walk?
Here are the steps that will help parents in resolving the issue:
- emotional and frequent communication with the child;
- the development of motor skills (both small and large): let the child touch various objects in shape and texture. Do not be afraid for the safety of the baby - just be there and monitor its actions;
- read poems, books, jokes, learn a few "pestles" and sing to the child;
- play games where gesticulation is required, such as the forty-crow, ladushki, finger games;
- speak correctly, do not distort words, do not lisp with the child.
Why does not the child walk?
It is necessary to reassure those parents who, having learned the above temporary norms, panicked: each child develops individually and uniquely, and the lag or advance in terms of the proposed norms of development is absolutely normal. Undoubtedly, if there are no additional burdening factors in a situation where the child does not walk at all or abruptly stopped to walk, or started to walk after seven months of age. In other words, if your baby is healthy, cheerful, good in weight, reacts to the environment, but does not walk a lot - the child is OK, this is his individual norm, which does not affect the overall development. To identify serious violations in speech development, a planned and mandatory examination of an infant in the office of an otolaryngologist is planned. The doctor will be able to see the objective reason for the violation of the auditory or speech apparatus and answer the questions of troubled parents why the child does not walk.
Why did the child stop walking?
If there are no objective reasons, and the baby has stopped walking, then it is necessary to provoke him to communicate. Parents (in the first place, mother) should continue to "agukat", pronounce the sounds that animals publish, actively support the child with emotional conversations, even if he is silent or has less to walk.
An integrated approach to development is important for any child. So for the formation of speech, the physical development and the emotional environment in which the infant is growing is important. If he is full and happy - then to start an active walk you just need to help him a little.