What to do to make your child talk. How to help your child talk. Speech therapist advice

All parents eagerly await their baby's first word. But sometimes he is in no hurry to pronounce it. And some children continue to remain silent for up to three years. Perhaps this is partly your fault, so do not rush to see doctors, but help your child speak. To do this, you will have to follow the simplest rules and in no case forget about them. Always remember that your baby needs constant support and help to make his first small successes. 10 little tips will help you with this.

10 golden rules for parents of silent parents

A child is born knowing nothing. In the first years of his life he will have to master all the basic skills. And it's not easy. Therefore, you must make every effort to help him with this.

Rule one. Talk to your baby more

The more spoken language a baby hears, the sooner he will speak. At first, you may not even think about whether he understands you. Just talk to him on any topic. He must constantly hear your voice, intonation, capture emotions and changes in timbre. When your baby grows up, talk to him about topics that he understands - about toys, lunch, cartoons.

Rule two. Make sure your speech is clear

You must be sure that the baby clearly hears all the words you say to him. Therefore, when talking to him, always watch your speech and clarity of pronunciation. Children copy the way their parents speak, and if they don’t hear a sound clearly enough, they may pronounce it the same way in the future.

Rule three. Speak slowly

Rule four. Choose clear words

The shorter the words are, the faster the child will learn them. But you shouldn’t get carried away with such “slang” words as bibika, yum-yum and other abbreviations that parents love to babble with their kids. Call a spade a spade. If you want your child to quickly remember the names of objects and actions, then supplement what is said with gestures and showing this object. For example, “here is the cube”, “where is the ball?”

Rule five. Comment on your actions

When performing any actions, constantly comment on them. For example, “we are putting on our shoes,” “I am pouring soup into a plate.” But there is no need to turn comments into an endless stream of words in which the child will simply get confused. Take breaks, learn to find a middle ground between “little” and “many”.

Rule six. It's more fun with music

Children's songs develop your baby's hearing and teach him to remember words, and if you sing along quietly, he will learn them even faster. So listen to fun children's music with your baby every day.

Rule seven. Let the child want to talk

Sometimes mothers make a huge mistake when they predict all the baby’s wishes. If he asks for something by simply pointing his finger at it, he immediately receives it. Due to anticipation, speech development may be somewhat delayed. Therefore, a certain amount of misunderstanding is important. Let the child sometimes get angry that he is not understood - you should not pay attention to it. But he will have an incentive to learn to speak sooner. And if he makes such attempts, then listen to him carefully.

Rule eight. Give him an experience

Psychologists have noticed that new experiences also contribute to the development of a child’s speech abilities. From an early age, a child should live a full, rich life. New places, acquaintances, impressions - all this is a great incentive for full development.

Rule nine. No TV until age three

Another mistake young, inexperienced mothers make is to distract their child by watching TV while she does household chores herself. TV, computer, tablets - all this slows down the development of the child and not only speech, but development in general. When talking with adults, the child still understands very few words; he perceives gestures, facial expressions, and intonations much more actively. TV will not give this, and will also distort the correct perception of things.

Rule ten. Development of fine motor skills

All parents have read that speech and finger movements are interconnected. It is very important to develop fine motor skills. Any methods are suitable for this - plasticine, mosaics, simple puzzles, construction sets, paints, pencils. You can come up with a lot of ways. An elementary way is to string buttons on a thread or fishing line. Try to entertain your child as often as possible by using his hands.

If you do everything correctly, your child will speak at the right time. Then all you have to do is contribute to the further development of his speech by learning poems, tongue twisters, and performing various exercises. Now in stores you can find a wide variety of books on the development of speech in preschool children. A little bit of your patience and your baby will delight you with full-fledged speech.

Summary: The child learns to speak. Speech development delay. If the child does not begin to speak. How to help your child talk. Exercises and games for speech development in children.

When do children start talking? On the one hand, the answer to this question is very simple - it has long been established that after one and a half years a child begins to speak his first words, and by the age of two, children, as a rule, begin to talk. Moreover, mastery of speech has the character of an “explosion.”

The previously silent baby suddenly began to speak, so much so that it was impossible to stop him. Some scientists believe that such suddenness in mastering speech is due to the fact that children at one and a half years old make a kind of discovery: every thing has its own name, which can be learned from an adult. The child’s endless questions “what is this?” would seem to confirm this opinion. But to think that a one-year-old baby is capable of discovering a universal law means greatly exaggerating the intellectual power of children. Not a single child is able to understand the symbolic function of words at such a young age without mastering speech. Yet the speed at which a baby's vocabulary expands is astonishing.

However, determining the exact date of the appearance of the child’s first words is not so easy. The fact is that children differ so greatly from each other in the time of speech appearance and in the volume of their active vocabulary that the average data in no way reflects the real picture. There are children who already at 11-12 months speak up to 110-115 words, and there are cases when up to two and a half years the child remains stubbornly silent, despite generally normal mental development.

Such significant individual differences do not allow us to establish at least approximate age norms for speech development. More than once, psychologists have tried to determine exactly how many words children of each age should know. However, all these attempts have not yet resulted in anything, because there are too many differences between children from 1 year to 2 years old. To somehow overcome this difficulty, scientists tried to calculate the minimum and maximum child vocabulary for each age. It turned out that there are huge differences between these values. For example, at 1 year and 3 months, the minimum child’s vocabulary is only 4-5 words, and the maximum is 232 (!). Moreover, among the children examined there was not a single child prodigy or mentally retarded.

It turns out that The timing and pace of speech acquisition largely depend on the individual characteristics of the child. and on the path his speech development takes.

Speech development has two main directions: passive use of words (i.e. speech understanding) and active(i.e. speaking). Typically, passive speech precedes active speech. Already at 10-12 months, children usually understand the names of many objects and actions. Everyone knows the famous children's games "Magpie-Crow" or "Goat". “He understands everything,” the touched parents are surprised, “but he can’t say anything.” Indeed, until a certain time, the number of words understood significantly exceeds the number of actively spoken ones. And for some children this period is very prolonged. A child can, up to 2 years of age, well understanding everything that adults tell him, not utter a single word - either remain silent at all, or explain himself using babbling speech. And yet, if a child lives in normal conditions, his speech develops.

Usually in such children the transition to active speech occurs abruptly and unexpectedly. And this is understandable. After all, a fairly rich stock of understandable words becomes the child’s active vocabulary. It happens that children who were stubbornly silent until the age of 2 years already at 3 years old catch up and surpass in their development those who began to speak at 10 months. Therefore, there is no need to worry if under 2 years of age the child’s active vocabulary contains only 2-3 words. If a baby understands speech addressed to him, if you create all the necessary conditions for his normal development, then sooner or later he will speak. But how early or how late largely depends on you.

Let's look at how parents can help their child talk.

For a long time, it was generally accepted that children's speech arises from direct imitation of the speech sounds of an adult - children remember the words of adults, repeat them and thus master speech. “Say mom, say lala, say spoon,” the baby’s parents ask and expect the appropriate sounds from him. To their great joy, many babies already at 10-12 months begin to clearly repeat certain simple words after adults. Imitation does take place during speech acquisition (after all, children always begin to speak the same language as their parents). However, it is not the main thing. A child can easily reproduce a particular word at the request of an adult, but at the same time never use it independently. This means that the ability to imitate, perceive and reproduce other people’s words does not yet lead to the appearance of the child’s own words.

At the same time, it is obvious that the first words appear only in communication with an adult. But interaction between an adult and a child cannot be reduced to direct copying of speech sounds. A word is first of all a sign, that is, a substitute for another object. This means that behind each word there must be some kind of object designated by it, i.e. its meaning. If there is no such object, if the mother and child up to one and a half years are limited to manifestations of mutual love, the first words may not appear, no matter how much the mother talks to the baby and no matter how well he reproduces her words. If the mother plays with toys with the baby, his actions and these same toys become the subject (or content) of their communication. However, if a child enthusiastically plays with objects, but prefers to do it alone, the child’s active words are also delayed: he does not have the need to name the object, turn to someone with a request, or express his impressions. The need and need to speak presupposes the presence of two main conditions: 1) the need to communicate with an adult and 2) the need for an object that needs to be named.

Neither one nor the other alone leads to a word. AND Only the situation of substantive cooperation between a child and an adult or meaningful, business-like communication creates the need to name the object, and therefore, to utter one’s word. Thus, the main thing is not just to talk, but to play with the child; talk not just like that, but about playing together. Suitable for this are cubes, pyramids, balls, cars, pictures and many other objects that you can play with together.

In such substantive cooperation, the adult puts before the child speech task, which requires a restructuring of his entire behavior: in order to be understood, he must utter a very specific word. And this means that he must turn away from the desired object, turn to an adult, highlight the word he is pronouncing and use this artificial sign of a socio-historical nature (which is always a word) to influence others.

The essence of the speech task is to encourage the child to actively use a certain word as the only correct means of influence. Initially, the baby has no need to name an object with a word. Such a need must arise, and only an adult can teach him this.

In the process of mastering a word, three main stages can be distinguished, each of which has its own semantic center for the child.

On first stage such a center is item. The baby reaches out to him, accompanying his attempts with facial and intonation-expressive movements. In some cases, when he does not receive the desired item, these manifestations develop into anger and even crying. However, for most children, the focus of attention gradually shifts to the adult.

On second stage becomes the center of the situation adult. When addressing him, the child tries a variety of speech and non-speech means. Instead of trying to get an object, pointing gestures, active babbling ("give-give-give") and other methods of influence appear. This behavior is aimed at bringing the adult out of a state of neutrality and drawing his attention to his attempts. However, if the adult “does not give up” and waits for the right word, the child finally tries to pronounce it.

On third stage the center of the situation is precisely word. The child begins to not only look at the adult, but concentrates on his lips and takes a closer look at his articulation. Close examination of the “talking”, moving lips clearly indicates that the child not only hears, but also “sees” the desired word. That's why, When talking to young children, it is important to clearly articulate each sound so that it is clear how the sound is produced. After this, the first attempts to pronounce the word usually appear.

It is important to emphasize that the baby first orients himself in the general sense of the situation. He begins to understand that in order to address an adult, he needs to use a specific word, which becomes a means of address. Thus, the perception and reproduction of a word occurs, as we have already said, on the basis of the already open meaning of verbal communication and cooperation with an adult. Without a sufficiently developed need to communicate with an adult and play together with him, the first words cannot appear.

The process of word generation is fully developed only at the beginning. Subsequently, this process is curtailed, the child immediately proceeds to pronouncing a new word, to its articulation. At the same time, it is important to emphasize that the speech task, i.e. the task of conveying something in words, is first posed to the child by an adult. Children begin to actively pronounce words only under the influence of persistent influences from an adult, when he turns the word into the center of the child’s attention.

However, the appearance of speech is not always successful and timely.

Why is it difficult to speak?

Recently, obvious underdevelopment or even absence of speech in 3-4 year old children has become an increasingly serious problem for parents and teachers. We will try to consider the main, most typical causes of such problems in children 2-3 years old and, accordingly, ways to overcome them.

The first and main reason for the delay in speech development is the child’s insufficient communication with his parents. Recently, many parents, due to their busyness and fatigue, do not have the time or desire to communicate with their children. The main source of impressions (including speech) for children is television. The state of silence of family members in everyday life and in front of the TV screen has dramatic consequences for the acquisition of speech by a small child. Doctors who, by virtue of their profession, deal with speech and hearing disorders in childhood have been sounding the alarm for a long time. Back in the mid-90s of the last century, the German doctor Manfred Heinemann, using new examination methods, came across an unexpectedly large number of children 3.5-4 years old in need of treatment. On average, 25% of children were found to have speech development disorders. And today, on average, every fourth child of preschool age suffers from delayed speech development or speech impairment, regardless of the level of education of the parents or their belonging to certain social strata.

Experts emphasize that the increase in the number of speech development disorders in our time is explained not so much by medical factors as by the changed socio-cultural conditions in which children are growing up today. Working parents have less and less free time for their children. Thus, a mother has on average about 12 minutes a day to talk to her child. As a consequence of all this, a growing number of children are “blessed” with their own television or video equipment, and then the time spent watching programs reaches 3-4 hours a day. Particularly alarming is the fact that even small children 3-5 years old watch TV on average 1-2 hours a day. And some - from 5 to 6 hours a day, when they are additionally shown videos.

But it would seem that a baby, sitting in front of the TV, constantly hears speech, loud, varied and expressive. What prevents him from assimilating it? The fact is that The speech a child hears from the TV screen does not have the desired effect on him and does not play a significant role in speech development. It is not perceived by young children as addressed to them personally and is not included in their practical activity, and therefore has no meaning for them, remaining only the background of visual stimuli flashing on the screen. It has been proven that young children do not single out individual words, do not understand dialogues, and do not listen to on-screen speech. Even the best TV shows or videotapes cannot replace the communication between parents and their children! Let us emphasize once again: Only the direct influence of an adult and his participation in the practical activities of the baby can ensure normal speech development. Therefore, to overcome delays in speech development, at least two conditions are necessary:

Inclusion of speech in the child’s active activities;

Individual targeting of speech, which is possible only in live direct communication.

For a baby who is about to get used to the world of speech, it is by no means indifferent to who pronounces words and how. After all, only thanks to the word addressed to him can he become a person in the true sense. Moreover, first of all, what is meant here is not the transfer of information, but something completely different, which has much greater significance: a look in the eyes, interested attention, a reciprocal smile, emotional expressiveness. All this can only be given to a child by a close adult.

However Sometimes a delay in speech development is also associated with excessive understanding of close adults. Adults, well aware of the importance of a child’s autonomous speech, at the same time do not stimulate him to turn to normal human speech and do not set him a speech task, guessing his slightest desires. They understand well what the child wants to say and are satisfied with his “childish words” like “boo-boo,” “nyuka,” “luka,” etc. At the same time, parents themselves are happy to use children's words in conversation with their baby, since such children's language (it is sometimes called the language of mothers and nannies) expresses special tenderness and affection for the child. But this language is only appropriate for a baby, since he does not yet understand the meaning of words. After a year, when intensive speech acquisition begins, “baby words” can become a serious obstacle to the development of normal human speech, and the child will be stuck at this stage for a long time, content with a few “baby words.” If a child under 3-4 years of age remains at the stage of speaking exclusively “children’s words,” then subsequently various disturbances in his speech are possible associated with incomplete mastery of the sounds of his native language, the replacement of sounds, their mixing, etc. In elementary school, such incorrect pronunciation can cause gross errors in writing, since “as one hears, so one writes.”

So, there are two main reasons for a child getting stuck at the stage of autonomous child speech. Firstly, these are situations when surrounding close adults willingly use the same childish language in communication with a child, repeating its sounds and offering similar words of their own like “beep”, “yum-yum”, “pee-pee”, etc. - secondly, these are cases when parents and grandmothers, well understanding not only the peculiar language of the child, but also all his desires, guess them literally at a glance. Under such conditions, the child has no need for real words. Accordingly, to overcome such problems, two rules must be strictly followed.

1. Do not replace the conversation with the child with the language of “mothers and nannies,” that is, do not speak to him using various “boo-boo” or “pee-pee.” The baby needs correct human speech, naturally understandable to him. At the same time, when addressing a child, you should clearly and clearly pronounce individual words, attracting his attention to their articulation and obtaining intelligible pronunciation from him.

2. “Not understanding” the child’s autonomous words and slurred vocalizations, encouraging him to correctly pronounce and name the things he needs and, thus, creating a speech task. The need, and then the need, for human speech arises only in communication with close adults.

In this regard, I recall a well-known joke about a boy who was silent until he was five years old, and his parents already considered him deaf and dumb. But one day at breakfast he said that the porridge was not sweet enough. When the amazed parents asked the baby why he was still silent, the boy replied that everything was fine before. So, as long as you are understood without words, there is no need for them, and therefore you can remain silent or explain yourself with inarticulate sounds.

A child’s increased impulsiveness and insensitivity to an adult’s words can also become a serious obstacle to speech development. Such children are extremely active, mobile, they rush wherever they look and cannot concentrate on anything. It is as if they do not hear the adult who addresses them and do not react in any way to his words. They even express their protest in a special way: they scream, looking into emptiness, and not turning to an adult. The lack of necessary connections with an adult is also manifested in the desire to do everything yourself: an adult as a partner and as a model is completely unnecessary. Although a child’s individual games with objects free adults from the importunity of children, they do not in any way stimulate the child’s speech development. In such conditions, the baby’s very need to communicate with adults is drowned out: he stops turning to them, plunging into stereotypical actions with objects. As a result, the child’s mental development in general and speech in particular is delayed.

In such cases, you must first return to games and activities that are based on emotional contact with the baby. This could be a gentle pat on the head, calling him by name, simple infant games like “Peek-a-boo” or “Magpie-Crow”. It is important to establish contact with the child, catch his gaze and get a response. Of great importance is how exactly an adult introduces various objects and toys into a child’s life. All objective actions should, if possible, be given a “human” character: pitying or putting a doll to sleep, putting the driver in a car and driving it to the garage, treating a monkey, etc.

It is better to reduce the number of toys. Games that cannot be played alone, such as rolling a ball, are very useful. If the child does not show interest in cooperation, try organizing a common game with another partner in his presence. For example, dad and mom can roll a ball to each other, rejoicing and rejoicing like a child. Most likely, the baby will want to take the place of one of them or join this activity. Imitation games are also useful. You speak in the presence of the baby for different animals, and the child, infected by the general situation, repeats after you. All these activities are aimed at stopping the child’s mindless running around and engaging him in meaningful communication.

Another quite common problem today is the rapidity of speech development. This variant of disruption of normal speech development is the opposite of all previous ones. It differs in that children’s first words are not only not delayed, but, on the contrary, are ahead of all age-related periods of speech development. A child at 1 year and 3 months suddenly begins to speak in almost complete sentences, with good diction, using words that are not at all childish. How much pride their talking miracle makes parents! How nice it is to demonstrate to your friends the extraordinary abilities of your baby! At first, the baby's possibilities seem limitless. They constantly talk to him, teach him, tell him stories, play records, read books, etc. And he understands everything, listens to everything with interest. It would seem that everything is going great. But suddenly such a child begins to stutter, has difficulty falling asleep, is tormented by causeless fears, and becomes lethargic and capricious.

All this happens because the baby’s weak, immature nervous system cannot cope with the flow of information that falls on his head. It is difficult for him to adapt so quickly and in just a few months turn from a baby into an adult. Increased excitability, night terrors, and stuttering indicate that the child’s nervous system is tired and that he cannot cope with the excessive information load. This means that the child needs rest, freedom from unnecessary impressions (and above all, verbal ones). In order to prevent the development of neuroses, you need to walk more with your child, play simple children's games, accustom him to the company of his peers and in no case overload him with new information.

So, cases of speech development disorders are very diverse. But in any situation, for normal and timely speech development, sufficient and age-appropriate communication between a child and an adult is necessary. However, it happens that no efforts of parents lead to the desired result - a child under 3 years of age continues to remain silent, or utters some inarticulate sounds, or avoids communication. In these cases, it is necessary to contact specialists - a speech therapist, a child psychologist or a neurologist. Do not forget that speech is one of the main indicators of mental development, since it reflects all the achievements and problems of a small child.

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Speech development is one of the main aspects of a child’s development. Unfortunately, in our time, delays in speech development are very common in children. Why a child is silent, how to make him speak and how to then develop the child’s speech, we’ll talk in this article.

Why doesn't the child speak?

Reasons why doesn't the child speak, maybe several

Reason 1: intrauterine

If the mother’s pregnancy was difficult, she had intrauterine diseases, or there was a birth injury, this could affect the delay in speech development in the child. In this case, observation by a neurologist is mandatory - he will be able to prescribe drugs to nourish the brain and help solve the problem medically.

Reason 2: physiological

Another reason why a child does not speak may be the child’s physiology. In order for speech to occur, the body must be ready for its appearance. To do this, the brain must be ready, the organs of speech and breathing must be sufficiently mature, and the hearing aid must be developed. Sufficient development of the speech organs and brain is the foundation for a child to speak; without this foundation, speech development will be delayed.

Reason 3: psychological

It also happens that a child was born healthy, and his speech organs are already formed, and by all signs the parents understand that it is time for the child to speak, but he still remains silent. So the reason is that it’s just too early. Here we must remember that the child will still speak when the time comes, it’s just that his time has not come yet. As soon as the child is ready to speak, he will begin to speak on his own, without prodding or asking.

What to do to make your child talk

As we have already said, speech does not arise out of nowhere; the development of speech requires a physiological foundation, that is, sufficiently developed organs of speech and breathing. That's why the first thing you need to do if you want your child to speak is to develop the speech and hearing apparatus. There are special exercises for this, called articulatory gymnastics. They will help the child correctly position the speech organs in the oral cavity, train and strengthen them. Strong, elastic and mobile speech organs (tongue, lips, soft palate) are the key to pure sound pronunciation. Read separately about how to do articulatory gymnastics at home in the next article.

Here are some ideas on how to train your child's breathing:

• Blow on the “chime of the wind” and listen to the sound you get
• Blow bubbles, make bubbles with a straw while playing in the bath
• Blow on fidget toys
• Play musical instruments (pipes, whistles, harmonicas)
• Blow out the candles
• Organize a competition: who can blow a cotton wool ball into the goal the fastest (for example)

However, a well-developed speech apparatus does not guarantee that a child will speak. To do this, he needs to be stimulated. I'm not talking about pretending that you don't understand the child when he shows something but doesn't name it. Such a false “misunderstanding” of parents will only lead to the fact that the child will be angry and offended, negative emotions will accumulate towards the parents, and this will not lead to good. How can you help your child talk?

In one of my previous articles, I wrote about. There I gave specific examples of what we did to develop speech. But I will list the main points again:

• Develop fine motor skills (read about how to do this in the article “”)
• Develop your hearing (to do this, play a variety of games with sounding objects: hide and seek with a bell, find a pair by sound and others, practice logorhythmics)
• Expand the child’s vocabulary (read and memorize fairy tales, rhymes, nursery rhymes, play games “what’s missing”, “magic bag”, “I know 5...”, there are actually a lot of them)
• Train coherent speech (to do this, learn to describe a picture, answer questions, talk about events, etc.)

In conclusion, I would like to remind you stages of speech development : speech is formed only when the previous stage has been mastered and the next one can be mastered. First, the child learns to pronounce individual sounds, then syllables, then so-called “babble” words and parts of words, then words, then sentences and, finally, coherent speech.

The child is growing, and you are looking forward to when he will start talking. Letting the process of speech formation take its course and simply waiting for the baby to speak is not the best parenting tactic.

Don't waste precious time

A child’s speech needs to be developed from birth. Surely every mother helps him with this, without knowing it. A mother's heart tells her that she needs to talk to her child and talk about what is happening to him. Carry your child around the apartment and explain what he sees. Of course, at first the child’s vision is not developed enough to see everything, but it is very important for him to hear your voice, your speech.

In the first year of a child’s life, the brain centers responsible for speech are formed, so these first twelve months are the foundation of speech development.

At three years of age, the speech areas of the brain are almost completely formed, which means that the favorable period in the development of the child’s speech has ended. That is why it is important not to waste time and engage in the speech development of the baby.

Hand development and speech

Domestic scientists have come to the conclusion that the hand is the same organ of speech as the articulatory apparatus. To stimulate speech development, it is necessary to massage each finger and each phalanx from early childhood.

Experts say that children should begin developing fine motor skills from the age of two months. You can massage your fingers without using force, it can be stroking or light rubbing. The duration of such classes should not exceed two to three minutes. Do not forget that at the same time you must talk to the baby and smile at him.

An older child can be asked to assemble a pyramid, sculpt from plasticine, draw, play various games (for example, “Ladushki”, “Magpie-Crow”), sort through cereals, put beads on a thread, and so on. The presence of adults at this time is required.

You can play with your baby with a bubble ball. Introduce him to different types of surfaces - smooth, rough, prickly, soft, wooden.

How early a child begins to speak depends only on the parents. He will begin to reproduce speech only when his passive vocabulary has accumulated enough words for this. Speak to your child clearly and understandably, pay attention to the correctness of your speech. If parents do not talk to the baby, explain what is happening around him, what the objects around him are called and what their properties are, the child’s speech will be stingy, and the process of its development will be significantly delayed.

It is important not to miss the stage of early speech formation. Never belittle your child’s abilities, even if you think that he is still too young and does not understand much: teaching your child at an early age is the key to the successful development of his speech. Rest assured, your efforts will pay off in full.

Marina Karamasheva

Today, the problem of non-speaking and poorly speaking children is being noted all over the world. It is usually due to the fact that parents have stopped talking to their children, shifting this responsibility to talking toys, cartoons and other gadgets.

At the same time, psychologists advise starting to talk with babies already at perinatal age, this is how an emotional connection between mother and child is established. And as soon as the child is born, you should continue constant conversations with him and soon you will have a wonderful interlocutor.

So, how do you teach a child to speak? Effectively and without extra effort!

1. Talk about everything under the sun

As you know, a child imitates adults in everything. If in the house there are constantly conversations between parents and conversations between parents and the baby, then the child understands this as a necessity. Contact the child with questions, even if you answer them yourself later, and also comment on what you are doing or are going to do. Tell your baby about dad, about yourself, about your closest relatives.

2. Be emotional in conversations

It will be easier for the baby to understand and develop correct speech if it is emotional and accompanied by appropriate facial expressions and gestures. Even without understanding the words, the child will understand the parents’ speech on an emotional level.

3. If you want your child to speak correctly, don’t understand him

Many parents do a disservice to their child. When a child begins to speak incorrectly or make up words, adults get used to his speech and begin to understand his wishes at a glance... Instead of asking him to say it correctly. The baby sees that he is understood and gets used to these incorrect words, which will be very difficult to wean off. The same thing happens with abbreviated words. Let the child speak like an adult - not “tu-tu”, “yum-yum”, “pee-pee”, but in full words.

4. More books

A child can read books from birth. This will not only form a good habit in him, but will also allow him to competently develop his speech. When a child begins to easily understand the plots of “baby” books, you can start reading more adult literature, for example, short stories and novellas for schoolchildren. They will help the child expand his vocabulary with more complex words and sentences.

5. Finger Theater

With the help of finger games, you can tell fairy tales and introduce your baby to new characters and their characteristics. Games are the surest way to understand the world.

6. Acting

Role-playing games are a wonderful way to raise a liberated child. Show your child how to play with several characters at once, changing their voice and intonation. In such games, you can easily track your child’s mood and anxiety, and also teach him to play independently.

7. Be interested

Ask your child what he wants to do, what he wants to eat and where to go. When looking at books and on walks, ask what he sees and feels. If the child finds it difficult to answer, tell him the answer - this will form in him the correct perception of the environment.

8. I want to know everything

10. Actions in conversation

When starting to speak, the child uses more nouns. For the correct development of speech, it is necessary to introduce him to verbs, so he will quickly begin to construct sentences and correctly express his desires.

11. Articulation gymnastics

You can do this kind of gymnastics with the little ones. Even a two-month-old baby will be amused by a mother who imitates how a cow mooes or how a steam locomotive travels. An older child will be happy to repeat all these exercises after you, this will help you speak faster and pronounce more correct sounds.

12. Repetition is the mother of learning

To expand your vocabulary, your child needs to constantly learn new words. They can be complex, so they will need to be spoken more than once so that the baby remembers and pronounces the new word correctly. The best way to do this is in the game, showing the subject of the word, thereby visualizing it.

There is no need to sound the alarm if the child does not speak in sentences at two years old. Remember that your child is special and do not fit him into the same standard as others. A little patience, your participation, and the baby will start talking.