What You Need To Know About Speech And Language Skills For Children

By Jose Allen


One of the most important aspects of life is communication. It is the process that enables us to pass information from one person to another. Language is a vital skill that enables us to communicate with other. Of all development stages, Speech and Language Skills for children is a vital process that should be done early enough when the brain is fresh and ready to learn.

Generally, children are born with a tabula rasa brain, their brain is totally empty and it is then filled with what she hears from the environment. The child can develop speech naturally from listening from parent, individuals surrounding the kid and also the environment around the child. However, language skill are well mastered when taught, especially at a younger age. Language and speech development are very important.

These two aspects are actually different with language consisting of sets of social standards to indicate grasping what words mean, placing words together in sentences to facilitate the passage of messages and interpretation of commands or perceptions shared by others. Children ought to develop such essential skills in life so that they can relate to parents and peers and grow into social beings.

The two aspects can best be developed under natural settings where interactions from parents and peers exist although the parents have much greater roles to play in such development. These are best developed in environments that are rich in sound and sights and present exposures to these two aspects featured concurrently. Children will easily learn compared to adults because their rate of absorption is high.

These skills can be developed or natured in children with the help of a parent or in situations where the parent builds a loving, learning, and rich environment through positive daily interaction. Interaction should incorporate a variety of things like social skills such as turn taking and shared focus, interactive games and then observe and comment on all that is happening.

These abilities are best nurtured through interaction. Easy ways of developing them include talk technique. This is purely a narration process where parent or facilitator narrates all the happenings of the day to the kid as the day evolves. This develops the child speech as the child is given an opportunity to coordinate muscle actions like tongue, lips movement, and vocal track to build a recognizable sound that forms language. The kid gets an opportunity to answer questions thereby learning some communication rules.

The techniques are also nurtured through singing. This allows for mastery of some rules followed and the child who engages in it can express his or her idea in a meaningful way. Singing of common nursery rhymes is very helpful. Joint focuses are essential and the facilitator look at things, points and name them. The facilitator can also look at books together with the child and name pictures and even read stories.

The facilitator should get down to the child level and make a face to face talk and make every activity a learning activity. The environment should also provide for all necessary opportunities for a child social development. Finally, you should be a good role model and speak clearly and correctly.




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