How to teach a child to talk

All parents, without exception, are looking forward to the first words of their baby. And if the child is not in a hurry to speak, adults worry, hurry to show the baby to the doctor.

Ways to teach a child to speak

In order for the child’s speech apparatus to develop, you should work on this immediately after the birth of the baby. Let, he does not yet understand words, but he feels emotions and mood.

1. To teach the child to speak, you must constantly talk to him. To tell what you do when you wash or change your baby, what you see on a walk. It all starts with the little things.
2. To teach a one -year -old child to speak, try not to resort to the help of gestures. Explain everything in words and ask the baby to repeat, calmly tell him the correct word or action.
3. Sake the little one in the syllables that he can speak, and tell me the diversity. For example, the child repeats: "Du-do-do." Start to sing along: "Yes, yes, yes, do-do, di-di-di." This is a great exercise for the development of a speech apparatus and a fun game.
4. From the very first months of the baby’s life, develop fine motor skills of your fingers. Let the baby touch objects of various shapes and different to the touch: smooth, rough, ribbed. The ability to control the fingers is associated with the development of speech. When the child becomes older, do with him modeling. This lesson best trains small movements and sensitivity of the fingers.
5. Multiple the sounds of animals “Mu-mu, wow, kv-kva”, this causes an active interest in the baby and will help to learn the names of animals. It is very good to choose colorful books with drawings.
6. Tell the poems. Rhythmic, memorable poems encourage the child to repeat words. Read fairy tales, tongue twisters, show the baby pictures. Learn short rhymes, counters, nursery rhymes.
7. Do not seek to surround the one -year -old baby with electronic toys. Play with it with pyramids, cubes, rings, simple designers. Such simple toys allow you to show imagination, interest and active actions.

How to teach a child to say mom and dad

More often, the first word in children is the word “give”, but we will try to teach the child the word “mother”. When practicing with the baby clearly, in syllables and with a positive emotion, say the word "mother". When playing the simplest game “Ku-ku”, close your face and ask: “Where is mom?” Praise the child if he shows correctly. In the same method, we teach the baby the word "dad". We say clearly: "PA-PA came." SLOSS PA and MA are often used, so dad to teach a child to teach a child is a simple task.

How to teach a child to speak: exercises for speech development

Do not delay for a long time with the development of speech in a child. Approximately one and a half years, the baby can speak in separate words, to two years - formed phrases. Do not wait until the child speaks yourself, talk, play in words. Simple exercises will help teach the child to say sounds: a, and, oh, y.

• Exercise "Hippo". We show the child how a hippo opens his mouth wide. Then we close the mouth. Please repeat the child.
• Exercise "Kiss Mom." We show how to stretch your lips with a tube, then return to its original position.
• Exercise "Where are our teeth?" Show your teeth, stretching your lips into a smile.
• Exercise "Walk". We stick out the tongue, produce the tongue forward and backward, as well as in different directions.
• Exercise "Info the cheeks." Fill and draw the cheeks alternately.
• Exercise "Ticks". Open your mouth, stick out the tongue. We say "am!" Close your mouth. We train the pronunciation "a".
• Exercise "Smile". Say "and", stretching the lips in a smile.
• Exercise "Ball". We round the lips, as if holding the ball, pronounce “o”, pull the sound.
• Exercise "Bear". Open your mouth, lowering the lower jaw, hold out the sound "uh" like a bear.
• Exercise "Elephant". It begins with the repetition of the exercise “Kiss Mom”, we pull the sound “U-oo-oo”.
• Exercise "Bunny". Teaches to pronounce the sound "f". Raise the upper lip a little. The lower lip applies to the upper teeth. We pronounce the sound, releasing air through the upper teeth.
• Exercise "Wind". Teaches to pronounce the sound "B". It is performed in the same way as the previous one, but using the voice.
• Exercise "Fish". We train to pronounce the sound "P". Sinlessly, like a fish, close and open the lips with tension.
• Exercise "Voice". With the help of a voice, we learn to say the sound “b”. It is performed in the same way as the previous exercise.   For control, you can put your fingers on the larynx to hear the throat tremble.

How to teach a child to say l

Some children are not given the pronunciation of the letter "L". It is not necessary to immediately contact a speech therapist with the question of how to teach a child to say the letter. Let's try to solve this problem with independent activities. To pronounce “l”, the lips must be stretched, the teeth are connected. The tongue is located on the upper teeth, but not tight, but so that air passes. This type of pronunciation is called interdental. Now we pronounce the syllables: La, Lo, Lu, Lee. If this does not work, ask the baby to lightly bite the tip of the tongue several times, and then say: “La-la-la”. If the child does not succeed, slowly show yourself.

How to teach a child to say shh

To make the sound “w”, you need to spread your teeth 4-6 mm, the lips are slightly rounded. Press the front edge of the tongue to the beginning of the sky, press the side edges of the tongue slightly to the teeth. The sound is passed in the middle of the tongue. If the child says well the letter “T”, we can explain that now we understand the tongue to the sky and “hissing” is obtained. Stop hissing of the snake, syllables Sha, Shu, sho, shi.

How to teach a child to say p

The letter P is quite complicated, so sometimes it causes difficulties in children. To teach the child to say correctly the letter “P”, it is necessary to perform exercises that train and develop the speech apparatus:

1. To relax the muscles of the tongue, it is necessary to open the mouth wide, put the tip of the tongue over the lower teeth, hold 15-20 seconds. Repeat 3 times.
2. To develop the tip of the tongue, you need to open the mouth wide, strongly resting the tongue on the front teeth, pronounce the letter D. Perform 15-20 seconds.
3. To activate the muscles of the tongue, stretch your lips into a smile and bite the tip of the tongue. Repeat 8-10 times.
4. Ask the child to get in his tongue, show how the horse jumps. This will help to master the relaxation of the ligament, which is located under the tongue.

To teach the baby to say the letter “P”, explain where the tongue should be, how he should be pressed to the sky. Stop in words in which a solid letter “p”: kar-car, hand, fish. Learn to pronounce the letters during the game. Try with your child to growling menacingly, like a tiger.

If until the age of six it was not possible to teach the baby to pronounce the letters correctly, you should consult a speech therapist. The specialist will figure out what the problem is, tells what exercises should be performed independently.

How to teach a child to say the letter p. Video

A lesson with a speech therapist. Sounding the sound of R.

How to teach a child to speak words

In order for the baby not to speak with separate syllables and sounds, focus his attention on articulation. Repeat the words that he does not agree firmly and clearly, ask him to repeat him correctly. Follow several points to teach the child to say correctly:

1. By telling or commenting on the drawing, do not replace complex words simple. If we are talking about different objects, for example, a hat, a cap, a scarf, you should not say a generalizing word that these are hats. The child should know the names of different objects.
2. In order for the vocabulary of the child to be replenished with verbs, speak with small sentences, and not nouns. For example, a cat sits (lies, meow, plays, washes).
3. Eat the signs of objects in your speech: the apple is green, red, sweet, round.
4. Show the child what contrasts are. Kisa meow, and the dog barks. The bird flies, and the mouse runs.
5. To replenish the vocabulary of the crumbs, read fairy tales and poems. Books will help teach the child to speak. In fiction, bright, colorful descriptions are used. Choose books with illustrations, this will help to form figurative thinking in the baby.

It is impossible to teach the baby in a few days. But if you show patience, sequence and love for the child, your works will be rewarded!

How to teach a child to speak. Video

Dr. Komarovsky will tell you how to teach a child to speak.