Stammering occurs in sensitive and debilitated children. At the first signs of stammering, you need to urgently consult a speech therapist and a psychoneurologist.
Stammering in young children
The cause of stuttering can be:
- Frightened.
- Imitation of the speech of a stuttering child.
- Physical punishment.
- Incorrect attitude to the child, when the caress is replaced by sharpness, rudeness.
- Constant violation of the daily routine.
- Weakening of the body after a serious illness.
If the child falls ill with stuttering:
- It is necessary to transfer the child to home education for a while. Limit communication with children. Temporarily isolate from the collective. These recommendations are important to follow at the very beginning, as soon as a stutter appears.
- To prevent the fixation of a defect, limit the verbal communication of the baby. At the same time, it is necessary not to violate normal games and activities, so that spiritual and physical calmness is established.
- With the child you need to speak quietly, more slowly than usual, but without anger, calmly and affectionately. If the child does not pass convulsions, then talk to him in a whisper, and the same answer to demand from him.
- You can not show a child that you are worried about the child stuttering. Do not utter the words "stutterer", "stutter".
- Watching a video or a TV is best minimized or eliminated altogether. Once a week, select a child for the child and let him see it. Do not read scary stories, you do not need to force him to teach poetry.
- Limit the speech of the child. This can be achieved if the child will play board games, draw, sculpt, read him familiar books. Stuttering will disappear, if the child will talk less with stuttering, the child should speak calmly and leisurely.
- When a child stutters, speaks ill, you can not break off a child and make him repeat it again and again. It is not necessary to fix the attention of the baby on his lack. During the correction of stuttering, you can not visit people who do not speak clearly and quickly and invite them to visit themselves.
- Do not give your child chocolate, cocoa, coffee. It is necessary to exclude all that interferes with the peace of the child. Only do it not with the help of harsh prohibitions, but carefully, calmly.
- The child's body rests during a quiet and deep sleep. Sleep helps restore the nerve cells of the brain. In a dream, nerve cells rest from negative emotions.
- But the child needs an active rest. Changing one lesson to another and switching it provides a rest. It is desirable that quiet classes do not displace independent and moving games.
Stuttering children need to take complex B vitamins. They maintain a healthy state, a healthy state, and help to cope with fatigue. In the regime of the day, the child should have hardening procedures, every day should be in the open air. Sports activities (skis, sleds), outdoor games, create a cheerful mood, emotional uplift, soothe the nervous system. Water procedures - bathing, showering, dousing, wiping are of great importance for children. Physical exercises help get rid of stiffness, disinhibition of movements, bring up the concentration and discipline. All this has a positive impact on the child, he develops the right speech skills. All these physical exercises acquire therapeutic value for children.
Recommendations
- Many children without hesitation talk to animals, toys, toddlers. Encourage this.
- Try not to talk when the child is crying or on the verge of hysteria. It is necessary to calm the child, to caress, to distract him.
- You should not be annoyed that the child twists something in his hands, relieves tension, it distracts from speech difficulties. Give him a little toy.
- Do not make the child say goodbye and say hello, eventually the child will learn the rules of good taste. First remove the tension, and then teach the etiquette.
Listen carefully to the child, respect him. Praise, smile. Do not hesitate to show your child your love.