Effective activities for treating speech delay in kids
Every child has his ability to learn and understand, so don’t worry if your child doesn’t talk when you expect they should. Here are some practices that help treat delayed speech and increase the ability to early talking. You can try some of these effective activities with your child according to “Boldsky”.
1. Simple voices
Simple speech-therapy activities help kids talk, such as the farm games collection in which you can imitate animals’ voices with your child.
In addition, you can try some simple voice games such as answering the phone, having food, or pronouncing sounds like ”da”, “ma”, “ba”, “aa”, and “ooh” that reinforce realizing voices in early age as consonants and vowels ease the processes of imitating and memorizing letters.
2. Daily interaction
Communication with
others is considered the only means that allows children to learn how to speak.
Therefore, running on your TV permanently may not be helpful. Whereas,
interacting with your child while feeding, walking, or chattering in simple words
could help them memorize expressions instantly.
3. Reading books
Reading colorful books
to your child could help in treating speech delay as well as improve their
ability to link between objects and their names through colorful figures.
4. Playing with your child
The best way of
communication with kids is playing as it could enhance communication and raise
the sense of parent-child coherence in addition to developing motor skills in
children.
5. Shapes and colors
Kids should learn new
shapes, colors, and everything around them with their mom’s help, in a zone full
of games.
You can indicate a
certain shape or color quite often while picking it up.
6. Music and songs
Running on music and
singing kids’ songs can help your child make full words as a part of a song so they
can make full sentences. This would enrich their vocabulary. They would
understand the meaning of these songs and rhymes when they get older.
7. New words
Children can learn
from some parts of any conversation they hear from adults. They can learn the
pronunciation of simple words at first such as “toy” or “doll”.
You can share some
activities with your child. Particularly, you can teach them how to request politely
like “Can I get this crayon?” and “Can I eat this apple?”; such activity can
help your child learn words and sentences besides teaching morality.
8. Communicating with your child
You should encourage your child to use eye contact while talking which allows them to know that you listen to them and that you are concerned about what they are saying.
You can also use hand movements like waving, clapping, and imitating which could grab a child’s
attention to
learn the meaning of words through gestures.