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The kid doesn’t speak. What is the reason?
Today we want to tell you about SPEECH NEGATIVISM. This is a phenomenon when a child is very reluctant to enter into verbal communication, “understands everything, but cannot say.”
Quite often this is due to the excessive perseverance of the parents — attempts to draw out even a word can lead to protest from the little person. However, not all so simple.
Pronounced speech negativism rarely occurs from scratch. Most often, this problem occurs in children who are lagging behind in speech development — when adults overly actively force the child to speak or focus on the shortcomings of pronunciation.
Note that there are still two conditions: the persistence of adults and the unwillingness to speak. Parents often confuse UNREADiness with UNWANTINGness. Toddlers are never too lazy to do what they can, and speech refusal is a real problem (physiological or psychological), not “laziness”.
How does verbal negativism manifest itself?
- Instead of words, the child is silent, mumbles, begins to use gestures, “independence” appears (instead of asking for something, he moves a chair, climbs in and takes it himself), does not communicate with other children.
- If your baby understands the speech addressed to him, fulfills requests, his speech has gone through all stages of development (cooing, babbling, simple words), then here we are talking about the psychological reasons for silence. For example, mom asks “SAY” or “REPEAT” too often. Or the kid said his few phrases, and then ended up in an uncomfortable environment (in a kindergarten where the surrounding children speak better), realized his speech deficiency and became isolated.
What to do in this situation:
- get away from the words “say” and “repeat”. Excessive pressure only exacerbates the child’s fears. Next, it is important to give the child the motivation to actively use speech.
- When playing toys with your baby, clearly pronounce simple sentences and short words: “Bunny jump-jump”, “What is the name of our bunny? The bunny’s name is Zaya”, “Bunny Zaya”, etc. Repeat each phrase several times while performing an action with a toy. You should not bring the situation to the point of absurdity, this is still a game, not a speech therapy lesson, so try not to let the child feel that he is a student here. At this stage, we do not demand anything, but simply play and repeat simple words.
- The next step is speech imitation. For example, when playing with cubes, we say: “Let’s take a big cube. What did we take? And after a short pause, if the child himself does not answer, we say for him: “Cube”. The bear came to the bunny. He asks, “What’s your name?” What is the bunny’s name? Zaya.
- When the baby tries to say something, be sure to praise him, let the baby see how you rejoice at this small victory.
- A good way to motivate a child to speak is to repeat verses. It’s better to start with short rhyming tracks, for example, “MA-MA-MA-MA, the snowy winter has come … MA”. This can be done unobtrusively, as if not expecting the child to respond. Having heard the phrase enough times, the baby will learn well what to say, and one day he will begin to respond.
- Put the baby in a choice situation: “What do you want: cookies or candy?” The main thing is that both words are familiar to him
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