Kindergarten teacher and now as ten years have noted that the number of "bad speaking" children is rapidly increasing. According to statistics, a total of 5-7% of children come to school with speech problems. And even if the teachers exaggerate, it is not a reason to give up on the problem.
Indeed, many children with speech problems arise, which are related to the peculiarities of modern life, when the attention of the parents take computer and social networks, games, TV, and communication within the family is allocated a minimum time. In such a poor "language environment" kids have a tough time, and sometimes it is impossible to speak on time and beautiful. In Ukraine, speech therapists work adds another problem - bilingualism (bilingual) parents. And if the family has two similar sounding language, the baby may get confuse "language picture" that will prevent him from speaking.
To the rescue comes a speech therapist, who with the help of a whole range of activities and exercises will help your child to become the youngest speaker, to be successful in learning and communicating. But when you start to sound the alarm and start the search for a specialist?
At what age?
Typically, a speech therapist evaluates the speech abilities of the child, who had turned 3-4 years. Ideally, such an alarm is kindergarten speech therapist or a specialist children's clinic of the annual medical examination.
Younger speakers, even if they are planned language "interference" is not physically ready for classes, so my mother amateur can cause severe stress for the child.
But the three-year it is possible to show the speech therapist, who will analyze how the brain baby (yes, this is very important) and its mouth (articulation apparatus) ready for eloquence.
Important!Do not be surprised if the therapist after a short inspection will send you to a neurologist. The fact that a speech therapist - a teacher, not a doctor, and when the speech center of the brain kid needs help, not a neurologist or other specialist (otolaryngologist, speech pathologists) can not do.
What problems should alert?
• If the baby is not gulil 2-3 months of age and does not babble after the first half of the year (does not produce basic sounds, syllables, and not repeat them away), it is necessary to turn to professionals already in a year. Such crumb not immediately show a neurologist, who will tell you how to solve this problem.
• For one and a half years in the crumb does not say connected simple words of two syllables "mom", "dad", "give", "BBC" and had difficulty performing simple requests: bring a ball, to give a specific toy.
• For two or three years pipsqueak understand all the words, addressed to him, but does not want to talk or communicate actively on its "gibberish" language, only grunts or using gestures, should go to a specialist.
• In 3-4 years the child communicates only in single words or very short sentences (in 2, maximum 3 words), do not expect the crumbs "burst" and he spoke sharply, - refer to a speech therapist.
• If you have 4-5 years of a child utters all consonants softly: "knizka", "zyaytsik", "malyatsko" unlikely if he indulges in, most likely, your child needs help in a serious workout articulation organs.
• Kid-doshkolenok in 5-6 years does not say a series of sounds (burrs, or nasal lisp), a speech therapist should assess the degree of substitution risk of sounds "predecessors" and help little umnichki cope with speech violation. In itself, it does not fix the problem and the child may "blow" into adulthood.
Important! To a speech therapist and neurologist should apply to first-graders and second-graders, or even a child, though pronounces all the sounds, building proposals, but confuses or miss letters on the letter by writing strings (especially if the baby survived the stress or injury).
Why is this so important?
In speech therapists have one firm rule: The earlier speech correction, the problems are solved faster. Some speech problems can be solved only in childhood, otherwise, if you miss, they will pursue the child's life. Dear mom and dad, do not forget that time is running very fast, and every year - this is a special (Sensitive) period in the development of the baby when the body is ready to accept a particular skill, Skill to comprehend. When the time passes and the skill is not acquired, to help your child will be much more difficult, and is unlikely to succeed to achieve the desired result. On the development of the nature of the speech highlighted the children the first 6-7 years, but it's not the fact that, referring to a speech therapist before school, in one fell swoop you fix all the flaws in the child's speech.
And further. If a baby is poorly talking with them sometimes do not want to play the other children, he does not trust the role and poetry at children's parties. Sam the kid hard to contact, because few people understood what he feels, what he wants to share, so the crumb is suffering from neglect and may even show aggression, why have a child spoils character. The truth is true: happiness - when you understand. So do his favorite child happy - give him time to speak nice!
Where to find a speech therapist?
• Ideally - in his district hospital. This person must be in the state and to advise parents who asked for help.
• In consultation and diagnostic clinic "Okhmatdet" speech therapist takes daily (except Saturday and Sunday). For the specialist you can go in the direction of the district health center or a one-time fee:
city Str. Stretenskaya, 7/9; tel.: (044) 272-15-91; (044) 272-39-38; (044) 272-02-34.
• In Ukraine, a lot of work developing and especially speech therapy centers
KIEV
- City speech center for children and adolescents - Str. Miropolskaya 8. tel.: (044) 543-91-32.
- Ukrainian medical rehabilitation center for children with organic lesions of the nervous system - Str. Bogatyrskaya, 20, Tel.: (044) 412-05-78,412-10-68
- "Aurora", the auditory rehabilitation center - Avenue. Heroes of Stalingrad, 20, tel.: (044) 467-30-60.
- "Intelligence" - st. Urlovskaya 23 in tel.: 380 (67) 758-70-14; [email protected].
- Clinic Ulyana Auschikul. - Str. Pochayninskaya, 28. (044) 467-63-89.; (095)068-30-74.
- "Mental health of children", Kyiv city center - st. Frunze, 103, tel.: (044) 468-36-78.
- "Nightingale" - st. Ivan Mazepa, 18/29; tel..: (097) 334-00-10 / (066) 254-34-00; www.log-center.kiev.ua/
- "Suvag-Kiev" rehabilitation center for children with speech disorders - Str. Vladimir, 43-a, tel.: (044) 235-32-49,221-13-30.
- "Ulenok" logopaedic center - st. Nikolsko Slobidska, 4-d, Tel.: (095) 512-36-16.
- Center for the correction of speech - Str. Garmatnaya, 21/30, tel.: (044) 237-06-14.
DNEPROPETROVSK
- "Healthy Childhood", a medical center - st. Sverdlov, 29, tel.: (0562) 45-44-10,45-52-98.
- Regional Psycho-pedagogical center - st. Patorzhinskogo, d. 13, Tel.: (0562) 46-34-10
KHARKOV
- "Lallio" Center of development and speech correction - ave. Gagarin. 4, Tel.: (057) 756-60-49, (097) 294-09-58.
- Logopaedic center Helena Voskobojnik - Sq. 50th anniversary of the Young Communist League, of. 403, Tel.: (067) 753-32-38.
- "Rhetoric", right speech School - Sq. Freedom, 8, Tel.: (057) 755-31-33.
ODESSA
- "Kindergarten Vulik" logopaedic center - st. Polish, 21, Tel.: (48) 709-35-97; (094) 917-35-97.
- Street - Simagin logopaedic center. Rishelyevskaya 56, Tel.: (48) 788-23-50; (093) 021-22-52.
LIONS
- "Svitava-Galician," medical and logopedic center - st. Mazepa, 29, tel.: (032) 252-44-22, (068) 501-65-43.
