During the growth of a child, language issues are undoubtedly one of the most worrying issues for parents. When the child is old enough to speak, he can't pronounce it, which makes a lot of mothers crazy.
At this time, many parents are in a panic and often fall into many misunderstandings in order to help their children speak, which is not conducive to their children's growth.
In the previous article "Autistic children don't speak? In the content of these 8 misunderstandings, we list 8 "blacklists" that parents need to pay attention to the most. In this issue, we will bring you 8 "intervention goldlists" that every parent must learn.
What should I do if my child has poor language development?
01 Understanding the child’s language level
0~6 years old is the golden period for children’s language development. From babbling to a complete sentence, the child’s language development has made rapid progress during this period, and the development process is very obvious.
However, each child has different developmental abilities, so his language ability will be strong and weak. Under normal circumstances, children with late development will have a difference of 4-6 months compared to children with earlier development. If this time exceeds this time, parents should pay more attention to their children's development.
At this stage of children's language learning, parents should objectively view their children's language ability and do not "overestimate" or "underestimate" their children's level. If you find that your child is indeed backward, you should go to the children's health department or developmental behavioral pediatrics department of a regular public Grade A Children's Hospital as soon as possible to do a comprehensive developmental assessment and diagnosis of , and intervene and train as soon as possible.
02 Looking for a professional speech therapist
Find a child’s language ability problem. Parents should first seek help from a professional speech therapist .
Because many parents do not have professional knowledge to support at this time, they know nothing about how to teach their children to speak. If they do not seek help from professionals, they will "work behind closed doors" at home, which will easily delay their children's golden period of language.
Some parents will seek help online, but the information on the Internet is complicated, so it is difficult for parents to distinguish which information is useful to them, and they need to intervene under the guidance of professionals.
03 Cooperate with the teacher to do family intervention
Leave the child to a speech therapist for intervention, which does not mean that parents can be "nothing is easy". In fact, parents are also important participants. Some institutions always train their children behind closed doors and exclude parents from the door, which is a very wrong approach.
On the one hand, teachers need parents to cooperate in family practice . In daily life, you should talk more and teach more. Only when both parties cooperate well can the children make progress faster.
On the other hand, parents should not think that everything will be fine if they hand over their children to speech therapists. Parents are the people who know their children the best and are also the most important teachers for their children. Parents can extend treatment outside the classroom , effectively interact and communicate with their children in life, and maximize the training benefits.
So, parents join forces with institutions, this is the most effective intervention strategy for children.
04 Be a close playmate for children
Carry out family intervention, which is difficult for many novice parents to learn languages. They don’t know how to teach their children to learn languages to be the most effective.
In fact, the most effective and easy-to-get-up method is that parents should change their identities, treat themselves as their children’s friend , rather than teaching their children’s abilities from the perspective of parents.
If parents can be like Doraemon, they can always bring many toys they like to children, and they can also change their ways to take their children to play with them. In the game, adding appropriate language to children's interests seems to be "playing" rather than "teaching". Promoting children's language development in play is actually the most effective way to improve children's language ability.
And the more interesting the children find during play and games, the easier it is to learn communication and develop language, so parents must play the role of their children’s best playmates.
05 The language input is rich enough
Without enough input, how can a child learn to speak? Speaking is mutual. If you want your child to learn to speak, it is very necessary to listen to others more and accept a lot of language stimulation through "listening". Especially for our autistic children, the effect is not immediate, and results must be seen after sufficient accumulation.
Image source: psychologist An Zheng
So, parents should be generous with language, adults speak more, and children listen more. We can describe everything in daily life to children through clear, accurate, vivid and vivid language and actions, constantly stimulate for children language, create a good language learning environment, and ensure that children have enough information input.
When talking to children, there are some tips for that are worth noting. For example, start with things that children are interested in, use some exaggerated and interesting baby words, try to communicate face to face, so that children can see their lip shape, etc.
06 Make an appropriate response
Want to do language input for your children, but some parents feel a headache. They are not good at speaking and don’t know what to say when they are with their children. How to say it.
Here you can learn a trick to enter in narration language. Parents can enter voice to their children in different life scenarios and narrate them on the spot, and make timely and appropriate responses to their children's expressions in each time period.
For example, put the doll in a bag and let the child take the toys randomly. When the child gets the puppy, he can introduce the child to "dog, wool, wool, wool, wool," and then introduce "cat, meow, meow," and repeatedly demonstrate the name of each item while playing with the child.
When making appropriate responses to children, you should also pay attention to a few small details.
◎ Easy to listen to : Highlight the professor's keywords and repeat the keywords continuously. For example, if a child wants to watch Peppa Pig , demonstrate the pronunciation of " Peppa " to his children, and don't just say something like "Let's look at Peppa Pig you like the most."
◎ Easy to understand : combine pictures, real objects, etc., teach
◎ Easy to learn : In the game, don’t ask your child questions frequently, but describe it yourself to avoid children from escaping because it is too difficult. When the child learns a wrong pronunciation, parents do not need to deliberately correct it, they just need to demonstrate the correct pronunciation to their children. When a child learns a word, expand the knowledge points on the word and add a little, but not more. For example, after a child learns "Page", he can add a verb "Look at Page".
07 Create a scene for children to speak
It was found in clinical practice that many children with slow language have a "doing everything" behind them. When the child is thirsty and hungry, he does not need to ask for it. Just point your mouth or cry a few times, and caring parents can understand what the child means and satisfy the child immediately. Over time, children are too lazy to express themselves, which will affect the development of children's language ability.
To avoid this situation, parents can deliberately set some difficulties in to create opportunities for children to speak.
◎ Create various opportunities to "force" children to express their needs . Deliberately hide the toys, snacks, etc. that the child likes, or changes the placement location so that the child can see but cannot get it, forcing him to take the initiative to make a request. If the child doesn’t know how to say it, we can first demonstrate and let the child imitate it and then satisfy him.
◎ Pause or terminate the children's favorite game . For example, the child likes swings , and he says "push" before pushing him every time. Slowly, when you feel it is almost done, when the swing slows down and you don’t push it, the child must feel strange, why doesn’t the swing move? At this time, in order to continue playing, the child will try to say "push" - you will continue pushing immediately.
◎ Deliberately do some actions that hinder children's activities , so that they can make demands on activities or behaviors they don't like.For example, when the child is playing with a car, he deliberately walks to the front of the car and guides the child to say, "Please give it a little." When distributing the food, give the child a taste that he doesn't like, and guides the child to say, "I don't want this, can I change it?"
◎ Illegal errors and let the child correct . When the child points at the apple, parents can deliberately pick up the oranges that the child next to him does not like and let the child actively speak out and express their needs.
◎ Give a choice and let the child actively express . If you hold the apple and orange, let the child choose which one to eat, the child will definitely say "apple".
Life is the best language class. Just take a little "little thought" to seize the ubiquitous teaching opportunity.
08 Wonderful picture book
Regular reading picture books for children is also a good way to help parents and children develop language through interaction. Picture books can provide children with some situations that are difficult to access in in daily life. When reading picture books, parents can take their children to learn some abstract words related to cognition and imagination.
Parents can choose various picture books based on their children's interests and hobbies. When reading picture books, they should be vivid and repeat the keywords and sentences in the picture books. Reading picture books is not just a matter of reading them in accordance with the rules. You can also add to interact with your child’s , for example, let your child choose the page you want to see and listen to, and add games, toys, etc. to the corresponding plot to make reading very interesting.
In addition to picture books, listening to music from is also a good opportunity to learn language. Parents choose some catchy children's songs, the lyrics are short and often repeated, which can play a great role in children's understanding and expressing language.
Teaching children to speak is not a matter of overnight success. Parents should adjust their mentality, be prepared for a protracted war, use scientific and effective training methods, and strive to make their children speak as soon as possible.
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