How to teach a child to talk

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Linguistic skills children acquire much earlier than many parents suspect. A month before the birth of a child can already distinguish Language development starts in the womb different languages ​​in rhythm. A fundamental knowledge about the structure, melody and intonation of native speech laidBabies remember their birth language - scientists in the first months of life.

Talking with your baby, you do not just rent the air, and build a foundation for its future success. Children, with which few parents talked already to two years may lag behindTalking to babies boosts their brain power, studies show from peers in the development of about six months. The more the baby hears wordsThe Power of Talking to Your Baby in the first three years of life, the higher the his IQ and the chances of a good grades in school.

Conclusion: Talk with your child as often as possible, even if it is not yet able to answer. Actively involved in the language of his education, taking into account age features. And remember: the Internet, YouTube videos, and even scientific television programs can not replace human interaction.

How to teach a child to speak from birth to 3 months

What a child learns

• Recognize sounds and associate them with certain movements of the lips. Hardly born, the baby can already recognize her mother's voice. The child begins to listen to unfamiliar sounds of the surrounding ocean and learn to extract from it the meaning.
• Gulit and agukat. Various combinations of vowels «a», «y», «s» and consonants "d" and "m" - the first, for they hear from the baby's parents, except crying, screaming and groaning. Usually talking babies pull when they are full and satisfied life. ASUCA, babies, among other things, develop facial muscles, which in future will help them play a more complex sounds.

How you can help

• Sing, tell nursery rhymes and sayings. And it is possible even before the birth: the child begins to hear already the 16th week of fetal development. So the new man will be easier to understand the rhythm of the language.
• Speak softly and melodiously. Adults intuitively interact with the baby more subtle and melodic voice, drawing out the vowels. And it is right. Various studies show that it is this style has attractedWhy your baby prefers infant-directed speech babies, helps them to learn the language and develop social skills.
• Allow silence. Kids need time to play with his voice and not be distracted by the sound of the television, music and other noises.

In some cases, worry

If after three months the child is still not coo, it makes sense to consult a pediatrician, neurologist and Laura.

How to teach a child to speak from 3 to 6 months

What a child learns

• Respond to his name. By six months, most babies know their names. In addition, they react to some familiar words like "mama" and "papa".
• Recognize intonation. The kid is very sensitive to the way it is addressed - smiles in response to the tender voice, and may cry when he heard a rough tone.
• To imitate adult speech. Scarce adopts the tone, rhythm and tempo of speech that is heard.
• To build a more complex chain of sounds. It is no longer monosyllabic Gulen and play vowels, speech therapists who called a pipe.

How you can help

• Play a game of "Who is this?". Bring your baby to the mirror and ask, "Who is this?" And then call the child's name.
• Master the art of conversation with children. IN English language is the concept of baby talk - talk focused on kids. In Russian, we often refer to this process syusyukanem, thereby diminishing its value. Meanwhile, accompanying infants, you help him to quickly assimilate the language. In the future, the child will be easier to learn more difficult words. Here are some techniques have baby talk:
  1. Imitation of the child: adults not pronounce certain sounds.
  2. Replacing nouns pronouns. We ask, "Anna wants to walk?" Instead of "Do you want to walk?".
  3. Simplification of words and designs to the "Vav", "Dyudya" and "Fu, Kaka!".
  4. Using the melodious intonations and diminutive suffixes.

Baby talk helpsBaby talk: Mini Parenting Master Class children feel parental love, is the feeling of comfort and security.

In some cases, worry

At six months, the baby does not laugh, do not pay attention to the new sounds.

How to teach a child to speak from 6 to 9 months

What a child learns

• To recognize short phrases in context. For example, you can wave a hand in response to your "Bye bye!"
• Babble. Govorun obsessively repeats the syllables "ba-ba-ba," "pa-pa-pa", "ma-ma-ma," "da-da-da," "ta-ta-ta", "ka-ka Spoken "and" ha-ha-ha. " Some adults perceive baby talk, how to realize it, and debating what the word baby said the first - "Dad" or "Mom". Although he simply indulges your ears and trains speech apparatus.
• To express emotions. The babbling baby can distinguish pleasure or, on the contrary, grumpy tone.

How you can help

• Play sound games. Repeat syllables spoken by the child. Sami pronounce different sounds and short words, so that the baby could you emulate.
• Shows how to talk. "Work face" - it is important to toddler saw you play the sounds. There is also a trick: when something is pronounced, attach nursery palm to his lips to the child feel their movement.

In some cases, worry

The kid does not imitate intonations of adults who do not respond to his name, lopochet rare and monotonous.

How to teach a child to speak from 9 months to a year

What a child learns

• Understand short phrases to show on the items that you call. At this age, toddlers understand much more than they can say.
• Pronounce the first meaningful words. Yearling kiddy usually confidently say a few words, including necessary for the survival of "mom", "dad", "give". The vocabulary can vary from two or three words to 20, with 80% of them - nounsOntogenesis of speech development.

How you can help

• Comment on what you are doing. If you want your baby to quickly call your mom or dad consciously, to explain to him what you are doing at the moment. "Mom drinks coffee", "Dad goes to the store," "Mom is working». Ideally, if your day is full of events - the more diverse situations, the more new words to master the next speaker.
• Tell that the name - body parts, objects. Pronounces the names of relatives and friends. Co time it simple phrases. From "Look, the cat!" Go to "Look, a black cat!". If a child tries to repeat after you, support his efforts: call the subject again and again.
• Keep practicing baby talk. When dealing with children aged from nine months to one year and nine months is still usefulTalking baby words to toddlers helps them learn to speak faster, study finds Children buzzwords like "Lala" and "kisya". It is also recommended to stretch the vowels - for example, when you ask, "How are you-ah?" So the baby learns to talk faster.
• Read books with large bright pictures. Name objects and ask the kid to show them in the picture.
• Helped develop articulation. Build faces, grimacing, showing tongue - a variety of ways provoke crumbs do exercises for face muscles.
• Discard the nipples. Children who are still sucking a pacifier after a year, most problemsCan a Dummy Affect Your Child's Speech Development? articulation sounds generated in front of the mouth - such as "n", "b", "t", "d" and "c".

In some cases, worry

At the age of a year to a year and three months the child still does not say "mama" and "papa" can not display the object in the picture.

How to teach a child to speak from one year to 2 years

What a child learns

• To say "No!". If the baby does not want to eat porridge, he was able to shake his head and give up.
• To build the first simple phrases. Child until well costs simplifications: "There uk" instead of "There is a bow", "De ba?" Instead of "Where and why the grandmother is gone?".
• remember many new words. During this period, the majority of children are experiencing the so-called lexical explosion. In a speech there are more verbs and other parts of speech and vocabulary to two years increased to 300-400 words. But do not worry if your child begins to chatter a little later - after two.

How you can help

• Use more new words and to involve the baby in the dialogue. Research has shownLanguage Experience in the Second Year of Life and Language Outcomes in Late ChildhoodThe more often a child's parents to communicate in a period of one and a half to two years, the better his IQ and language skills in adolescence. It is particularly important that the baby responds to you.
• Pretend that you have a problem sign language. Sometimes a baby just lazy to say the words. Why, if it can be shown with your finger. Pretend you do not understand it. Ask to speak the words. At least try to build a conversation: "Do you want more tea? With or without sugar? However, it is very tasty? "
• Encourage attempts to speak. Even if you do not really understand what the child is trying to say, do not give up. Offers the option, asks whether you have correctly understood everything. And no irritation! Only love and infinite patience.
• Ask for help. For example, let put a cup on the table, or bring you an apple.

Young children is not easy to learn new words. They need to coordinate more than one hundred vocal tract muscles. For its development is useful to blow bubble.

Richard N. Aslin, a professor of cognitive sciences, development specialist and speech perception in children

In some cases, worry

In one and a half years kid does not listen to the conversations of others and does not say a word conscious.

In the two-year it is impossible to repeat for adults, even if the word is uttered several times. He does not respond to simple questions and prefers to communicate with gestures. This is an occasion for the first time to visit a speech therapist.

How to teach a child to say 2 to 3 years

What a child learns

• Monitor the development of the plot. Baby is able to perceive the history of 5-10 minutes in length.
• Use abstract concepts. He already knows what now, what it is - to be sad, and the more different from the less.
• Build wordy phrases. After two years of the baby develops Communion and prepositions, and later - unions and pronouns. For three years in vocabularyStages of development of language skills reaches 250-700 words and phrases length - 5-8 words.

How you can help

• Ask questions. Many and different - about the size, quantity, color, Intentions. It is important that the baby could not answer in one word - "yes" or "no." "Look what fat worms! How many are there? What do you think, where they crawl? "
• Use more complex sentences. Do not limit yourself to short sentences. Speech with subordinate units involved and verbal participle phrases, adjectives and adverbs will help your child learn the structure of language.

Children can not learn that they do not hear.

Eric Hoff, a professor of psychology and author of Language Development

• Read every day. And talk about the read.
• Unlearn children's songs. So the kid will be easier to remember new words. Besides singing helps the development of the speech apparatus.
• Develop fine motor skills. parts of the brain that are responsible for it and for the development of speech, are very close. Working with one of them, you touch another. Molded from clay, stringing beads on a string, mosaics - everything goes in kopilochku eloquence.

In some cases, worry

In three years, the child does not name things, does not know the names of the nearest relatives, and his vocabulary is not more than 25 words. His speech is slurred, he can not construct sentences, does not use the verb, is not talking about himself in the first person.