Mastery of speech - one of the most important and the most difficult skills to master every kid. How to help the crumbs that stutters, chokes the air and loses the letter?
Some kids learn to speak easily, as if of their own accord, others have more complicated. As a rule, much attention is paid to the child's ability to correctly pronounce the sounds, the formation of his vocabulary and the ability to coherently express their thoughts. However, in order to learn how to beautifully and fluently talk, baby you need to comprehend is another important skill - to learn... breathe.
If the child is breathing properly
Proper breathing during speech time - not the same thing as a normal physiological breathing. For him, there is even a special term: speech breath. With the correct speech breath man speaks more clearly, it does not dry up in the mouth, it does not get tired and does not sit down vote, even if you have to talk for hours.
- Too many problems with speech, faced by children and their parents, are directly related to insufficient knowledge of the speech breath. If the inability to properly exhale kids begin to "crumple" phrases, choking in the middle suggestions, speak very softly, so that they can be difficult to hear, or finish his thought whisper.
- If the child is not able to properly inhale the air nose during speech, the oxygen does not pass the stage of cleansing and moisturizing, and no time to warm up. In addition, at the mouth breathing child receives 25% less oxygen than at nose breathing.
- All this leads to various diseases of the respiratory tract, loss of appetite (the child does not feel odors), voice alteration (nasal or shrill), and it is bad for the teeth: they begin to curve grow.
- More severe speech problems such as stuttering, rhinolalia, dysarthria, etc., Is also directly related to improper breathing.
During the exercise, make sure that the child is not puffed out his cheeks, not clenched his lips and raised his shoulders
Child stutters: voice exercises that teach proper breathing / istockphoto.com
Top 6 exercises against stuttering and correct breathing
1. Sniff berries and flowers
Take fruits, berries or flowers and give their baby a sniff. Fruits with the best cut in half, so that the aroma was stronger. Show your child how to sniff, to experience fully every single breath. This game is especially good in the summer, because you can sniff each occurring in the way of the flower as well as mown grass or fir cones while walking through the woods. Encourage your child to sniff each dish before eating. As is known, the flavors of dishes stimulate appetite.
2. blow out the candle
Light a candle and ask the kid with her blow. See how swaying flame from breathing. Then teach the child to blow out the candle. To the child became more interesting, create a special ritual - light a candle before going to sleep, during the reading of books, and then extinguish it and go to bed. The child has a good job with this exercise? Encourage your child to blow out more candles on one exhalation (as in the day of his birth).
3. Blow on a dandelion
Everyone knows how great flying and whirling white "parachutes"! Taking a walk with your child, be sure to tear off a few dandelions and blow them to bits of fluff all shot up. The hardest thing to blow the seeds that are close to the stem. Therefore, if your child has already learned to easily send a feather in flight, begin to pay his attention on these lurking trusishek who are afraid to fly: blow away and let them too!
4. manage a ship
This exercise can be done at home, in the bathroom, and on the street, such as puddles left over from the rain. Make a small paper boat (at first very small, and then, as the development of the baby game more) and let him swim. Let the child manages boats, blowing on it. Over time, you can even arrange a kind of "sea battle" trying to blow the ship from different directions or to arrange a competition two frigates: a first doplyvet to the other end of the bath?
Child stutters: voice exercises that teach proper breathing / istockphoto.com
5. Blowing on feathers or paper butterflies
Cut a few butterflies out of paper, which is not only in color but also in density, or take a multi-colored feathers. Then hang them on a thin thread so that the butterflies were on the child's face level. Have your child turn into the wind to blow and butterflies. How beautiful they begin to fly! The child easily performed exercise? Make larger butterflies of thicker paper.
6. Arrange a storm in a teacup
Fill a glass halfway with water and give your child a straw. The task - strong-strong blow into a tube to a glass of rose in a perfect storm, just like the sea during a storm. Can be accompanied by an action of some fairy tale about water and goldfish, then the child will be more fun to blow!
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