Dear parents, the program is designed specifically for your activities with your child. We are convinced that by organizing summer time taking into account the following recommendations, you will be able to achieve positive results in speech development. Considering that “summer air” has a beneficial effect on the development of the nervous system, we suggest spending most of the day outside, and most games contribute to the implementation of this recommendation.

Tasks: development of motivation for speech activity, expansion of the internal vocabulary, development of higher mental functions that are part of the functional speech system, development of productive activities, familiarization with the outside world.

Basic Rules:

• We rely on initial capabilities of the child: if a child can and wants to repeat after you, that’s great. If he can’t or doesn’t want to at the moment, continue studying - your information will enter his internal lexicon (passive dictionary).

• Your main goal is maximum sensory experience with a short, emotional speech comment. For example, a child is digging in the dirt, and you are nearby: “Wow, you are so dirty” with genuine delight.

Formation of skills in pronouncing onomatopoeia and first words.

The game “Finger walker” for onomatopoeia, like this:

Game "Blanket Car". An adult lays a small blanket on the floor, the child sits on it, receiving something in his hands that imitates a steering wheel. The child is explained that he is driving a car and needs to “honk” by saying “beep”. An adult, taking the blanket by two corners, rolls the child around the room, stimulating him to pronounce onomatopoeia. The adult invites the child to say goodbye to the toy, leaving the room: “Bye!”, stimulates the child to reproduce the gesture.

“Trash” – the speech therapist and the child take turns throwing various pieces of paper and rags into the box, while shouting “op” - if it hits, “boom” - if something falls with a crash.” At the same time, the speech therapist accompanies all this with the words: throw, throw, throw. Thus, the child is brought to the realization that the same action can have different meanings
"Rain." Scatter rice, buckwheat, marking the cereals with rain and pronounce the onomatopoeia “Drip-drip”.
"Snow". To reinforce the simple word “cotton wool,” you can blow cotton wool off the table, pinch off a large piece of cotton wool, constantly pronouncing the word.
"Alarm". This game is used to develop kinesthetic sensations (which is very important for motor alalia" and to reinforce or evoke the onomatopoeia "tick-tock", the sound "z". The speech therapist sets an alarm clock on the child's hand with his finger, saying "tick-tock", then shakes the child's hand - the alarm clock rang “z-zzz”. Then the child is asked to set the alarm clock for the speech therapist, mother, himself. You can also “set the alarm clock” on the stomach, back, head.

Parents' tips:

1. You must not only constantly talk to the child yourself, but also force him to talk to you. First, make cards with food that he prefers or toys that he cannot get on his own, and when he wants to eat or play, ask him to bring you a certain card. When he brings it (this is the first stage), start asking him to pronounce one sound that is included in the word in the picture. For example, (start with those sounds that he can already consciously pronounce) M - milk or ball or car (if he wants to listen to songs), then, when he masters one sound (in the sense of several different sounds to a word-picture) add a second sound , which he can also consciously produce, M-O = milk (not MO, but first separately, if he can do it right away, then that’s even better, but usually, sounds are heard separately at first, and then slowly combined), M-A – machine, M -U = music... I hope the idea is clear.

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.

Some children start talking very late. To make your child speak earlier, you can use the conspiracy that I will talk about in this article. This conspiracy was developed in the last century; it is very widely used in rural areas of the Belgorod region.

To carry out the conspiracy, you need a church candle and a drink that you give your child before bed. The spell must be done every evening until the child begins to speak. To achieve a positive result, as a rule, it takes from seven days to two months

Conducting a conspiracy so that the child begins to speak

In the evening, when it is time to put your child to bed, light a candle, take a baby drink and say the following to it:

“Lord, help me, may the servant of God (the name of the child), whom I conceived, carried and gave birth to, learn to speak, and may he cease to be silent like a fish. Amen.”

Repeat the words three times, then give the child a drink. Well, don’t put out the candle, it should burn out completely. For every evening you will need a new candle (you can buy the smallest and cheapest candles in church, their size and cost do not affect anything).

Children respond very well to this spell; for some children, two or three times will be enough (there are also those who begin to speak after the first drink spell). What’s interesting is that after the conspiracy, the children begin to communicate very well and clearly, as if they had already been talking for a long time.
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How to talk to a child so that his speech develops? Should I communicate with him in his “Martian” dialect or demand normal words? Should I pay attention to gestures or not react? How to build a dialogue with a non-speaking child?

Experienced speech pathologist and speech pathologist Anna Makovey shares with mothers simple and effective techniques that will help even the most stubborn silent person talk and make your communication with your baby more interesting and varied.

1. Down with “Say” and “Repeat”

Don’t ask your baby to “Say: MA-MA, GIVE” or “REPEAT: “BULL-DO-ZER.” And it’s not worth punishing your child for refusing or pronouncing incorrectly! Very often, such requests lead to such a phenomenon as verbal negativism - with the above requests, the baby clenches his teeth tightly and runs headlong away from you, or simply ignores his mother’s persistent requests to say something.

How then? The secret is simple - play and during the game voice what you are doing:

• Here is the Lyalya doll walking along the path: stomp, stomp, stomp. This is how Lyalya stomps.” Words should be simple and phrases should be as short as possible.
• “The locomotive is buzzing “CHU-Choo-oo-oo-oo!” Sit down, Sasha, I’ll give you a ride!!!” Emotionality is a good way to attract your baby to play. Use different intonations in your speech, change the timbre (color) of your voice and add interjections - so the baby will not only learn to repeat simple syllables and words after you, but will also do it very expressively!
• “We will build a house. Let's take a cube. This big cube. That's how big it is! Now let's take this small cube. What kind of cube do you have? - be sure to pause - let your child feel like a full participant in the dialogue - “Yes! This is a small cube. Let's put it here. Here! Ready! It turned out to be a house! Who will live in the house? - pause - Kitty! That's great! Come in, kitty. - pause - Welcome!

Ask questions unobtrusively, without demanding notes in your voice. The baby should not feel any trickery or pressure from you. If the little one does not want to or cannot yet answer you, after a short pause answer yourself - this way you give the child a speech standard that will help him in the future to construct phrases correctly!

Note to mom!

Try to control yourself and not lash out at “Say”, “Repeat”. Don't expect quick results. A day, two, maybe a month will pass - and the baby will begin to repeat after you! The main thing is to calmly communicate and play, to involve the baby in a dialogue, at least formally (you ask the question yourself and after a short pause, answer).

If the little one doesn’t want to play the game you suggest, join the one that currently interests him. Rolling a car? Perfect! Ask for a bunny ride or a trip to the store for groceries or building materials. Or even take small paper rubbish to the trash can! Loves to rattle pots - great! Place the cubes in a pan and cook porridge for the animals from them. Periodically taste it for “sugar” and “salt”, invite your baby to “try” it too - most often the little ones respond with great enthusiasm to such mother’s tricks =)

2. “Ti-ti! BIRD, fly" or how to use babbling words in speech

Often mothers and other loved ones underestimate the speech capabilities of the baby. “How many words does the baby speak?” - “Yes, two or three...” The question is: what counts as words? Do “top-top” and “bi-bi” count as words? Should the word “Ah-ah-ah” be considered three different words if it is “painful”, “smells good” and “sleep, my doll, go to sleep”?

Make it a rule to record your child’s “speech production.” Let it be a notebook, notepad or just a piece of paper in which you will write down all the sounds, syllables, words that the baby can already pronounce. This will give you an idea of ​​the baby’s articulation capabilities and excellent material for inventing and introducing simple and accessible words into games. For example:

• "Ti-ti." Based on them, we introduce the words “bird” and “fly”. While walking, sprinkle grains and call the birds: “Bird, fly, eat. Here, a bird is flying. Eat!” Then ask the baby to call the birds.
• "Meow" and "mi". If you have a cat at home, great. Play it like this: “Pussy, where is your MISKA? Let's pour some milk! Here, kitty, milk. Lak! You can imitate how a pussy laps its tongue - this is a good articulation exercise. “Here, kitty, eat the meat!”
• We turn “Nanny-nya” into the word “nanny.” Come up with a game with the word Nanny: take the doll and ask the baby to rock it, calm it down, and put it to sleep. “The doll is tired and wants to sleep. Let's rock her to sleep! A-a-a-a, Baaay-baaaay, sleep, doll (or by name, if you have one), go to sleep! Sleep. Look, Sasha, what a good Nanny! The doll quickly fell asleep!”
• We turn “Pi” into the verb “to drink” (the appearance of verbs in a child’s speech is good news!!! He attracts nouns, adjectives and all other parts of speech very well). “Let’s go” and then add what you need - “drink tea”, “drink juice”, “drink fruit juice”, “drink milk”, “drink jelly”, “drink compote”. “Quickly”, “slowly” - “You don’t need to drink quickly. You have to drink slowly." “Drink in small sips.” "I'm drinking tea. You (touch the tiny shoulder with your hand) are drinking juice. Dad is drinking coffee."

Note to mom!

You need to practice coming up with ideas - words don’t immediately come to mind. But! Patience and work will crush all our “I can’t” and “it doesn’t work out” =) If the baby’s speech already has quite a lot of words, use a dictionary to compile simple phrases that can be used in games.

3. “Give me contact!”

This recipe is simple and very natural in the relationship between mother and baby - hug more often! Floundering, a little tomfoolery, loving pinching and biting are welcome! What else? Dancing where you hold hands, simple hugs after the game: “How good it turned out!”, and just sitting on your knees!

What is all this for? How does tactile contact affect speech development? It has a very good effect!

1. Mutual trust, a feeling of security and comfort arises.

The baby trusts and therefore is open to all your ideas, and is not afraid of condemnation and criticism. And you better understand the baby, his capabilities and desires, become less demanding and more relaxed, which is very good for equal and developing communication.

2. Games are more natural and comfortable, bringing a lot of pleasure to both you and the baby. And if we really like something, we want to repeat it, right?

3. Using your example, your child learns to express his feelings in words and deeds, show attention to loved ones and provide them with support. Remember the law of hugs? Four hugs a day are needed for survival, eight hugs a day for health and well-being, twelve hugs a day for growth and self-esteem. Hug more often!

Note to mom!

All manifestations of your feelings should be natural and appropriate; you should not pester your baby when he clearly does not want it. Tell your baby how much you love him! Call him by affectionate names, talk about how small he was, he couldn’t do anything: neither sit, nor walk, nor talk! And now he can do everything! Jump, run, eat on your own, go to the toilet! That's how much there is! Such conversations cause a lot of positive emotions, the baby begins to be proud of himself. And after self-confidence, attempts at self-expression appear. In speech, too.

4. “Toys to the rescue!”

Toys are our indispensable helpers in the development of a child’s speech. They will help to attract attention and introduce new words - nouns, adjectives, verbs, pronouns, teach them to use prepositions and construct phrases. How?

From 1 year to 3 years, the baby NEEDS manipulation with objects for development. However, it is important to remember that it is not the toy or object itself that develops, but the actions and manipulations that the baby performs with them. And he does this with your help!

How to play with objects correctly so that new words appear in the baby’s speech?

1. Nouns

Take the car, show it to the baby, tell him what it is: “Look - a car!” Demonstrate all the different actions that can be performed with it: rolling, loading and pouring cubes, rolling your favorite toy. Initially, the new word is closely associated with the object that was named so. The car is exactly this one - with a yellow cab and a red body! When the baby has mastered this concept - “car”, show him another car - say, a green one. This is also a car! And this little one is also a car! And this one has big wheels! This will expand the concept of “car”, and the baby will begin to better understand the speech of others.

2. Verbs

Ask the baby to do some action with the toy: “Roll the car. That’s it!”, “Place the cubes. Look, they put in a lot of cubes.” Cubes can be FOLDED, BUILDED, KNOCKED, SHIFTED, COLLECTED, DISASSEMBLED, CARRIED - that's how many verbs can be attached to just one noun - CUBES.

3. Adjectives

Tell your child during the game about the various qualities of the object you are currently playing with. The car can be red or blue, large or small, heavy or light. A baby’s favorite soft toy is soft, fluffy, velvety, tender, affectionate, warm. The cubes are hard, hard, red-yellow-blue, loud, wooden, plastic! “Touch how soft our pussy is. That's what it is! Fluffy! The skin is beautiful, gray. Let's stroke the pussy. Like this, like this - look how pleased the kitty is, she closed her eyes and is singing a song.”

4. Adverbs

The ball flies high and far; the car goes fast; the toy pussy also runs fast, but the turtle crawls slowly. The bear has a lot of porridge, but the dog has little, the pipe plays quietly, sadly, and the drum plays loudly, joyfully! They cleaned up the toys in the room: “That’s how clean it is!” Voice these and other signs of objects and actions, and the baby will also begin to use them in speech.

5. Pronouns

In the game, ask the baby: “Give me” and the pronoun “to you”: “This is a cube for me, and this is for you,” “I have a spoon (for example, you play kitchen and prepared “porridge” from cubes) and you have a spoon.” "My turn, your turn." “Here is my favorite doll. Where is yours?”, “Let’s rock the bear to sleep.” He's tired." So easily and imperceptibly pronouns will take a strong place in your little one’s vocabulary.

6. Prepositions.

Prepositions help the child better understand space-time relationships and construct phrases correctly. They are absorbed perfectly both in the game and during cleaning after it. “Bring me the ball. It's in the box. Thank you!”, “Oh! The cubes fell to the floor! Let's collect it! Place the doll AT the table. Let's drink tea." Let's put away the toys. We'll put the car in the garage. Let's put the cubes in the box. Let's put the balls in the bucket. Where do we put the doll? Here - ON THE sofa. That’s how good it has become!”

Note to mom!

In order for words to appear and become entrenched in the baby’s speech, MULTIPLE repetition is necessary.

The new words you introduce should be understandable to the child, “tangible”, such that he can feel through real experience. The phrases that you use in the game are the standard for the baby. So don't overcomplicate them. A simple sentence of 2-4 words is what you need.

5. “Mom, help!” or how to respond to sign language

1. Start working with yourself: analyze how you react to this behavior of your baby.

In the event that you rush to fulfill the baby’s desire even before it has time to take shape in his head, you will have to wait quite a long time for the speech. Why should the child talk, because everything is fine, all needs are satisfied and desires are fulfilled. And it also happens that mom’s nerves are not made of iron. Already in anticipation of hysteria, many are ready to give the baby anything to stop crying. Do you recognize yourself? No? Amazing. So, you can move on to step 2.

2. We “verbalize” the child’s gesture.

What do you want? - pause - You want to draw! Yes! Let's draw!

This construction of the phrase gives the baby confidence that his mother understands him (as opposed to ignoring gesture requests), and his mother will help. And after confidence, there will be attempts at independent expression.

3. We provoke the baby to make a request or refuse.

The rules of formal dialogue are the same as described above: “Do you want to drive the car? Yes (nods head). On”, “Will you drink juice? You won’t (we shake our heads from side to side). No".

Note to mom!

Support your child and praise him for trying to say something, even if it’s not entirely successful. It is always necessary to voice a gesture until the baby begins to make attempts to speak on his own.

6. “Mom, speak!” - verbalization in everyday life

In order for a child’s speech to develop, it is not at all necessary to organize special classes and spend an hour and a half daily on speech therapy games!

Speak out everything you do: when manipulating toys, name their color and the actions that can be performed with it: “What a ball! Red! Bright! Big! Easy! Let's take it for a ride: like this! Now I can roll - that’s how great it rolls! Catch the ball (lightly throw it into the baby’s hands so that he catches it) - that’s how cleverly he caught it!”

Use everyday rituals: washing, getting up and going to bed, getting dressed to replenish your baby’s vocabulary with new words and consolidate those already familiar.

Sometimes babies do not understand our verbal requests and instructions, since the action that the mother requires from the child is too general and the baby simply does not understand what exactly he must do! For example: “Take up your toys!” What does "clean up" mean? Where should I put them? What to remove first, what then?” Break down the activity into its component actions and voice them: “Let’s tidy up the toys. First, we'll put the cars in the garage - here. Put. Now let's put the balls in the basket. They put it down. Now you need to collect the cubes. Let's put them in a box." This way, children will not only expand their vocabulary, learn to understand and use prepositions in speech, and correctly construct simple phrases, but also master the skills of self-care and planning their activities.

Give your child simple instructions:

• bring dry laundry to the ironing board (“Take away the panties. Take away the socks. Take away the shorts. Thank you! It helped mom a lot!”);
• put spoons on the table (“Let’s set the table. Here are the spoons. Please put them on the table”);
• wipe off the dust with a dry cloth (“Let’s put things in order. First we’ll wipe off the dust. Wet the cloth. Now we’ve wet it. Now we’ll squeeze it out a little. Done! Let’s wipe the table. Like this! (help - cover the child’s hand with the cloth with your hand and move it across the table ). All is clear!";
• Place the food you just brought from the store on the table.

By doing such simple housework, the baby learns the names of objects and actions and learns to help his mother. Involve your little one in cooking - it's very exciting and useful for speech development!

You can instruct us to peel a boiled egg or potato, stir flour in a cup with kefir or shake eggs in a bowl, press the button on the blender handle, or even serve the vegetables you need: “Let's bake pancakes! We need kefir. Where do we have kefir? Yes! Here it is, in the refrigerator! Let's pour it into a glass. That's enough, that's enough. Pour kefir into a bowl. Now let's break the egg: kok! Ready! Stir a little with a fork. That's it, thank you!” etc.

Note to mom!

All sentences should be short and simple. Take breaks; if you ask a question, give your child the opportunity to answer. Even if the baby says something incomprehensible or is completely silent, be sure to answer him: “Where should we put the cubes? - “pause or baby’s answer” - I think so too! Let’s put it in a box!”

Over time, replace the naming of actions with questions: “What will we do first? Where should we put the cubes? Where should we put the machine? Where are your T-shirts?” etc. If a child prefers to use gestures in communication, voice all his “words”: Where did the ball roll? Yes! Here he is! Under the crib! Please get it. How cleverly you got it! Thank you =)” Kids love this expression of understanding from mom! Over time, they themselves become more willing to voice their desires and actions themselves.

Anna Makovey,
Speech pathologist, speech pathologist, early childhood development teacher.
Co-author of the training “Developing Speech in Play” using Teplyakova’s method.

First, parents teach children to walk and talk, and then to sit and be silent. (With)

An online friend wrote to me and asked me to post her letter for general discussion.
She is very worried - her child is 3.5 years old and still does not speak.

Actually THIS LETTER:

My son is 3.5 years old and he does not speak. Or doesn't want to talk?

First of all, he is a Caesarean. Towards the end of the pregnancy, the doctors had a problem with the exact number of weeks of this pregnancy, labor still had not begun - so the decision was made to have a caesarean section. Apart from this, the entire pregnancy went well, without problems. The child was born healthy, Apgar score 10.

Until 1 year and 3 months everything was fine, he grew like everyone else. Then, in six months, there were two moves, both times the move was “nervous.” After the second move, the baby took a long time to get used to the new environment, refused to go for walks, was withdrawn, but then “thawed out.” Then a new shock: at the end of spring, our younger brother was born (the difference was 2 years), and in the fall our eldest was taken to kindergarten in a neighboring building. He adapted for a long time, protested, we even left there - then the child changed his mind and led me by the hand back to the garden, saying that he agreed and believed that we did not exchange him for the younger one.

Actually, all this time he communicated with us with sounds, gibberish, he mastered sign language perfectly, but he uttered words, albeit appropriately, but once a month. For a long time they didn’t believe that he could answer a question or say anything.

At just three and a half years old, we took him to the doctors:
- they did an MRI - no problems
- showed an MRI to a neurologist - we were prescribed encephabol, took a course - nothing changed
- we went to a speech therapist - we were offered classes from the age of 4, maybe by this time the baby will “thaw out”
- went to a clinical psychologist - there are no signs of autism. You can go to a psychiatrist and we’ll hear the same thing.

The child is sociable, communicates with peers as much as possible without using speech. Fine motor skills are well developed. Puzzles are put together very quickly (a kind of test). If you reach for something for a very long time and persistently, you may say a word or two, or you may not.

What can I do to get him to talk?

ps. Thank you:)

I read this and remembered myself and my son Yasha. If his sister, Yanka, at the age of one and a half, read by heart about the “myfka” who collects “fyfki”, then at that age he only hummed and showed with his finger where I should go and what to give him.

When he was two years old, I started to panic. By three, we had already seen all the doctors and passed possible and impossible tests. Well, a classic normal alarmist mother, as in the letter. Yashka spoke gibberish, actively gesticulated, everyone understood him perfectly, he periodically gave out some words, but I never heard a single sentence from him.

What happened next?

At the age of four, I could no longer shut him up, and so it is to this day.))) When I began to feel the need to express my thoughts, I began to talk. Like in that joke, when a child who was mute from birth said, “The soup is cold, heat it up.” When asked why you were silent for so many years, you shrugged: “I used to be hot.” =)

Analyzing those years, I can guess what caused the delay in speech development.

1. Emotionality. He is very lively and hot, it was difficult for him to have time to express everything, it was easier to wave his hands.

2. And it was easier to wave our hands precisely because we really UNDERSTANDED it. And this, in my opinion, was a mistake - it was worth at least pretending to encourage my son to pronounce words.

3. Perhaps the problem was that he himself was the youngest child, his brother was a little older, spoke little and not clearly, but understood him perfectly, and they were also very attached to each other from birth. And then the child turned out to be a little “bilingual” - who should he imitate, me or his brother?))