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 exhale. But, as in that joke, there were spoons, and the residue remained. And not only for me, but for most modern moms. The question: why do children's speech develop later in the beginning of the XXI century, more slowly, worse, we decided to address 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 even so much the gadgets themselves, but the fact thatA child with a phone or tablet, in fact, is left to himself. And this is the most invisible, but also one of the most frequent factors - minimal and unproductive communication with the child. And after all speech does not develop without human dialogue and interaction. I think many heard about the children-Mowgli. If there is no contact with a person, then speech, in fact, and not needed. Everything can be done with hands, show gestures and facial expressions. So do animals. What are the most common problems that speech therapists see now? - In fact, we are more often surprised ifthe child develops normally, without delays and deviations. It's sad, but there are not many such children. And from problems it is possible to allocate tempo speech delays - when the child begins to speak not in one and a half year, and is closer to three, weak fine motor skills in older children - they work with fingers very awkwardly. Well, the coherent beautiful emotionally colored speech among the senior preschoolers generally can boast of a few.
What to do if the child is "silent" and how to develop a child's speech
- Eliminate neurological problems.- Children with speech problems - not only those who do not pronounce the sounds, but also those children who talk late and their speech is poor and wrong - it's worth visiting the logopedic garden. They work there on a special correctional program. But the garden does not replace a regular session with a speech therapist tete-a-tete. It is better that they go in tandem. - Be sure to seek advice at 3 years, 5 and 7 years, even if you think that the child's speech is okay. Not all parents see and know how the child's articulatory apparatus should develop, whether the phonemic development and lexico-grammatical aspect of speech are normal, whether the development of all these functions corresponds to age .- Love your child, play! The game is the only and basic activity of the child before schooling.
