Many women wonder why their children develop language delays, consult a pediatrician, or some traditional means of encouraging a child to speak. One of the most important ways to teach a child is to speak to the child in a clear and audible voice, and to be the mother’s eye at the child’s level of view. In addition, playing with the child and providing him with a good environment and feeling comfortable and loving are among the most important means of contributing to the development of the child’s language.
Ways to help a child acquire language
- Attention to the voices around it: The child must be encouraged to pay attention to sounds such as: the sound of the bell, or the sound of a particular game, and ask the child about the source of these sounds.
- Smile for the child: Sit in front of the child directly and smile and encourage him to do so, and can put the child in front of a mirror and asked him to smile, and when watching the smile of the child can be rewarded with the things he loves.
- To ask the child to make simple sounds: things that encourage the child to speak asked him to take out some sounds, such as: sounds of animals, sounds such as the sound of a car or plane, and the observation of air out of the mouth when speaking words in addition to the movement of lips during the pronunciation of words.
- Encourage the child to produce a two-sound clip: Play with the child permanently and encourage him to produce sounds such as: tying the game with a string and dropping it slowly with some sounds.
- The use of gestures and movements to communicate with the child: Encourage the child to work in some movements such as: movement of exile by hand, or shake the head acceptance, or rejection, and can work some movements with reference, can be caught with a moving game and play the child.
- Encouraging the child to respond to his name at his instructions: Some special things can be hidden and called the child in his name several times, then give him this thing, and call his brothers in front of him several times, and ask them to respond to movement or issue some voices and then call the child in his name more than once.
- Trying to mimic some of the child’s actions: Toys are used to imitate the daily movements of the child, such as eating, sleeping, or cleaning the teeth, pretending to feed the games, and trying to ask the child about the work we do.
- Trying to teach the child to respond to some instructions: The child can be taught to refer to family members by bringing an album containing family photos, asking the child about the owners of these pictures, and then referring to family members.