When my son turned 11 months old, I startedwait for the first words from him. Of course, checking the tables of norms of development, where it was said that by the time the baby was already babbling "Mom" and "Dad", ask for "give bi-bi" and other infant sweets. In the year the son did not speak. One and a half too. However, he was silent at two. Well, how to say, was silent. Close his mouth was absolutely impossible. But even to isolate from the stream of sounds at least one coherent word was also not possible.
A photo: GettyImagesThe grandmothers read the mantra with one voice: "Well, he's a boy, they're late." I decided: I will wait up to three years with specialists. For now, I did two things, as it seemed to me, the best at that time. I talked to him non-stop and constantly read to him. Shin spoke at 2 years and 3 months. Literally for a couple of weeks, having passed all the stages: from syllables to detailed proposals with deedprichastnymi turnovers. I'm not exaggerating now. Moreover, it turned out that he remembered almost everything that he had read, and gave out poems and fairy tales with citations by heart.
The child or Mowgli?
It was possible to breathe a sigh of relief.But, as in that joke, the spoons were found, but the sediment remained. And not only for me, but for most modern mothers. The question: why does children's speech at the beginning of the 21st century develop later, slower, worse, we decided to address to the expert - the leading speech therapist of the remote speech center "Oppi-online" Tatyana Komarova.
- In our time, children's speech is formed not so,as in the old days. First, even our mothers were healthier and more enduring than us, and ecology was only recently better. All this can not help but affect the birth - they do not often flow very smoothly: fast, long, using stimulation. As a result, a child is born with neurological symptoms. And this, undoubtedly, brakes, including the development of his speech. Now many people say that children are badly affected by gadgets ...— Not so much the gadgets themselves, but the fact thata child with a phone or tablet is essentially left to his own devices. And this is the most invisible, but also one of the most common factors - minimal and unproductive communication with the child. But speech does not develop without human communication and interaction. I think many have heard of Mowgli children. If there is no contact with a person, then speech is essentially not needed. Everything can be done with hands, shown with gestures and facial expressions. This is what animals do. What are the most common problems that speech therapists see now?— In fact, we are now more often surprised ifthe child develops normally, without delays or deviations. Sadly, there are few such children. And among the problems, we can highlight speech tempo delays - when a child begins to speak not at one and a half years, but closer to three, weak fine motor skills in older children - they work their fingers very awkwardly. Well, and only a few among older preschoolers can boast of coherent, beautiful, emotionally colored speech.
What to do if the child is "silent" and how to develop a child's speech
— Rule out neurological problems.— Children with speech problems – not only those who do not pronounce sounds, but also those children who started talking late and whose speech is poor and incorrect – should attend a speech therapy kindergarten. They work according to a special correction program. But the kindergarten will not replace regular one-on-one sessions with a speech therapist. It is better for them to go in tandem. — Be sure to seek advice at 3, 5 and 7 years old, even if you think that the child’s speech is fine. Not all parents see and know how the child’s articulatory apparatus should develop, whether the phonemic development and lexical and grammatical side of speech are normal, whether the development of all these functions corresponds to age. — Love your child, play! Play is the only and main type of activity for a child before schooling.
