Sound year 1: Sound; Year 1 (Elementary, Science)
Posted onSound: 1st Grade Science — The Brown Bag Teacher
Our school has adopted the Next Generation Science Standards and one of my favorite units in 1st grade is our Sound Unit. NGSS asks that students conduct experiments to explain that vibrations make sounds and sound can make materials vibrate. Today I’m sharing some of my favorite ways to keep sound hands-on and writing based!
Making Sound ‘Real’
Typically our sound unit takes place in the late spring, but this year our school was blessed with the opportunity to attend a Christmas Concert put on by the Kentucky Orchestra. Our 1st grade team decided it was the perfect opportunity to integrate our science, arts, and music curriculum with a two week unit!
With a real-world sounds experience under our belts, we read the book – Sounds All Around (Amazon affiliate link) – a great introduction to sounds and where they can be found. The books uses kid-friendly language to explain how vibrations make sound and how sound can travel through different materials (solids, liquids, and gases).
After reading Sounds All Around, we brainstormed a list of sounds in our worlds. From the silly to the every day, we named things that make sounds and the verbs that match the sound. (In Quarter 2, our 1st grade friends focus on verbs and adjectives). Then, students wrote in their journals about something that made a sound, circling the verbs. (Ignore my mis-spelling of trumpet…oops!)
Vibrations Make Sound
After we had been to the orchestra and made observations about sounds all around us, it was time to answer the question – how are sounds made? We read the book – How Does Sound Change (Amazon affiliate link)- and learned that sounds are made when materials vibrate back and forth very quickly. Making it to this photograph, our 1st grade friends decided to try our own rubber-band experiment.
Each of our table groups received their own rubber band and had to work together to create and feel different vibrations. It tools several of my groups SEVERAL rounds/attempts of plucking, picking, and pulling of the rubber bands before they felt their first vibration!
While my friends loved being able to feel the vibrations of the rubber band, my 1st graders struggled to hear the sound produced and really couldn’t see the vibrations.
So, for the first time this year, we pulled out the Slow Motion feature on my iPhone. My friend K videoed as we plucked the rubber band and the results were AMAZING!
Learning About Pitch
After learning what vibrations were and that sound is created by vibrating materials, we started our conversation about different types of sound. We brainstormed a list of things that made sound and how they sound (airplanes – loud, violin – high, babies – low and slow, etc.).
Introducing pitch, we used a metal spoon to ‘play’ glasses with different amounts of water. My friends took turns playing the glasses, making songs, and moving the glasses. Before introducing new sound vocabulary and writing our learning, my friends talked about their observations – which glasses sounded higher? which sounded lower? why do you think it is?
Then, we watched the BrainPop Jr.
video about pitch and made the connection to our experiment! My friends were so confident in writing about their observations.
Throughout our unit and our sound experiments, we focused on six main vocabulary words –
Wrapping It All Up
Borrowing a set of handbells (Amazon affiliate link) from my church, we spent an afternoon comparing the sound of the bells and explaining how the bells make their sound (each bell had a spring and a hard ball inside, so the length of the spring affected the sound made by the bell). My 1st graders had never heard or used Handbells, so it was definitely a magical experience. Plus, it was the perfect time to put into action all of our sound vocabulary – sound waves, vibrations, pitch, echo, etc.
After playing the handbells, one of my sweet littles asked to bring in her violin to play for us and teach us how she makes music using her bow. It was such a sweet moment and a perfect opportunity for her to shine in front of her friends. PLUS, I love seeing music valued and my 1st grade friends were in awe.
Music is magical, but even more magical when your friend is explaining how everything we learned is working. Our learning definitely became real with H’s concert! 🙂
All throughout the unit, we took time to write about our learning, vocabulary, and thinking in our science journal (response pages found here). At the end of the first week, I gave my friends the main idea – “This week we have been learning about sound.” asking them to share something they had learned about sound and an example of sound in the real world. I LOVED seeing these responses from 2 of my on-grade level friends. Even our littlest learners can have huge take-aways from hands-on learning!
This week we learned about sound. Sound is made by vibrating- that means back and forth. A ukulele vibrates when you strum its strings. It makes music.
This week we are learning about sound. Sound is noise that is made by vibrations. Vibrations are things that move back and forth really fast.
A whistle vibrates because the little ball inside moves back and father really fast when you blow into it.
A whistle vibrates because the little ball inside moves back and father really fast when you blow into it.Our week was hands-on, real-world and it was a blast. Honestly, I was blown away with how much my friends learned and how they were able to explain their learning. If you’re interested in using the resources that our team used, you can snag them here.
Is your school using the Next Generation Science Standards? If so, what are your favorite ways to make sound real for your friends? I’d love to hear your ideas!
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Sound Unit for 1st Grade
Finding a way to sift through and make sense of the Next Gen Science Standards can be a challenge to say the least! 🙂 But there is some good content in there with lots of opportunity for hands on learning and integration into the literacy block—which is my favorite way to teach science and social studies!
Here’s a look at my newest Next Gen Science Unit on Sound as well as links to all of the resources I use for this unit!
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Week 1: What Is Sound?
This unit starts off with lots of exploration of sounds around us.
We chart sounds we hear…
…and then go on a sound walk to record sounds around us.
Then, we explore how to describe sounds (through pitch and volume) with sound exploration stations. Find most of the instruments I used HERE. Not included in this pack are drums, a xylophone, or a guitar (you will need two additional instruments besides the big pack. You can also use what you already have or borrow from your music teacher!
Week 2: How Do We Hear Sound?
During this second week, we research how our ear works to help us hear and sound travel. Then, we test it out with our telephone cups experiment which you can see in detail here.
We also learn all of the academic vocabulary for sound this week. We play Find Your Partner with our vocab cards and definitions. And then we practice independently or during stations with our sound vocab crossword puzzles and word finds.
Week 3: How Do We Use Sound?
The third week our focus is using sound to communicate.
We experiment with making sounds with our vocal cords using the Voice Memo app for iPad…
Then, we brainstorm sounds we make with a carousel activity and anchor chart.
This week we also study what life would be like without sound by researching Helen Keller and learning sign language!
Week 4: STEM Connection, DIY Musical Instruments
The last week is all about using our new knowledge about sound for our STEM challenge! We use our invent me anchor chart to learn the steps of building something new.
Then, we work on a step or two each day. I have full color slides for each step with directions, materials and guiding questions or I can statements for each.
We put up the slide for the day and talk about our goals and then get to building!
The materials we used are already included on the «think» and «plan» slides, but I have also included templates for these without the materials so you can add your own! Here are the materials we used to build our instruments:
*cups
*construction paper
*toilet paper rolls
*rubberbands
*straws
*beans
*craft sticks
Since I am temporarily out of the classroom right now, I built instruments with my 4 year old at home and he absolutely LOVED this! He made 3 different ones…all his ideas! All I did was set out all of his material choices and have him brainstorm his ideas…
{yes, we did this in our pajamas…everything is better that way, right?? :)}
He made a drum first which was super easy to make. After this instrument and each one, I asked him to show me how his instrument makes sounds.
Then, he made a guitar…probably because Daddy plays the guitar at church and this boy loves his daddy! When I asked him to show me how it makes sound, he told me, «Well, it just kinda makes this clicking sound and that’s all because I can’t make it do notes like Daddy’s!» Bless his sweet heart! 🙂
And this is his shaker!
Trade Book Resources & Literacy Connections
Sound (Ways Into Science)
Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?
Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You?
Sounds All Around
A Picture Book of Helen Keller
Find the sound unit here!
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3DNews Sound and acoustics Ratings Sound hardware: ITogs 2004…
⇣ Contents The year 2004 in the market of hardware sound devices showed «dense» stability. nine0007 Moreover, it is obvious that the forces of many companies have been redistributed to more profitable segments, such as the markets for mobile and portable devices, Internet media, and digital services. But still, in 2004, there were some events that are worth focusing on. Using video adapters
Block diagram of the AVEX algorithm We have repeatedly addressed various solutions to increase the productivity of multimedia computers. These are networks, and special system blocks, etc. nine0007 BionicFX offered a very unconventional option, namely, the use of video adapter processors manufactured by Nvidia. After performing the necessary actions, the video data is decoded back into audio. Modern hardware graphical interfaces have a very large resource in the field of data processing, so the use of their powerful processors to perform third-party tasks is a fairly new and interesting development of the situation. nine0007 In principle, if we talk about novelty, then one can argue a little here, since computer graphics and sound are sections of such a discipline as DSP (Digital Signal Processing — digital signal processing). In both cases, we have almost identical mathematical approaches, using the same functions. For example, you can take filters from Adobe Photoshop and from various professional sound applications. The principle of their work is almost the same. nine0007
That is, the processor of the video adapter is used as a third-party processor, and the technology itself allows you to redistribute the load, while freeing up the resources of the central processor. nine0007 This topic is not new, and for one more reason. For several years now, special audio processing daughterboards have been released in the world of professional audio, for example, TC Electronic PowerCore. In the variant with Nvidia boards, we have a similar technological solution, only it turns out to be several times cheaper and more versatile. But, here it is worth pointing out that special software is needed. The first solution from BionicFX, namely the «convolutional» reverb BionicReverb (VST standard) should appear in January 2005 at the winter exhibition NAMM 2005. In addition, on their website, the developers promise to release a whole set of BionicFX effects processors for the VST standard (PC) . How much they will cost is still unknown, although if I were Nvidia managers, I would think about making these solutions free. nine0007 Where does all this lead? As you understand, we are only talking about software conversions, and for high-quality recording you will still need a good sound interface. On the other hand, we can already talk about the creation of powerful multimedia systems, and most likely soon we will be able to talk about special multimedia processors designed to convert audio, video and graphic data. nine0007 Custom sound card marketThis segment had a positive year. Even the old Turtle Beach came ashore and introduced the Catalina custom PCI card to the world. True, the segment of external USB and Firewire interfaces was rather difficult to move forward, but it paid off with the massive transition of MIDI devices to the USB port. At the end of last year, 2003, there was such an enchanting feeling that audio codecs such as AC’9 built into motherboards7 will destroy the market for cheap sound cards, but no such luck. Turtle Beach Catalina
It’s still amazing to me, of course, as the manufacturer of the best professional boards in the 1996-98 years teamed up with some of the best software developers at that time (meaning Voyetra) and not only closed its unique development direction, but switched to the market of cheap components with many competitors. Naturally, there could be no question of total success, even if the brand has proven itself well in the professional world. Now, after 6-8 years, strategists from Turtle Beach can rejoice — there are practically no competitors in the $50 price range %-). The new Catalina PCI card can be positioned as a competitor to Audiotrak and the like. nine0007 From the description, this is just a good quality board for gaming and home media. ESI Juli@
What does the user want from a fee for «slightly less» 200 USD? Good ADC / DAC, user-friendly design, high performance, support for all modern technologies. ESI Juli@ ($175) is not only the epitome of all of the above, but also the most popular in our territory, starting this fall. Some specification:
A distinctive feature of Juli@ is the detachable printed circuit board — the plug for the PCI slot can be connected either on the right or on the left side of the board. In one of the options, mini-jack connectors are positioned on the rear panel, in the second — RCA («tulips»). The professional series ESI is also interesting, but for fans of Juli@, the presence of one means that this board will receive good technical support in the coming years. This is one of the few examples where such significant changes as a brand name change have played a plus. To recapCatalina does not have a MIDI or game port. But it is known that the company Turtle Beach — one of the first to start releasing adapters MIDI-USB with support at the driver level. ESI Juli@ has one MIDI port, professional-class ADC/DACs are installed on board, and all modern standards are supported at the driver level. The rest of the Juli@ is somewhat behind the Catalina, and I think that the specific design with a detachable printed circuit board had a big impact on the price of this device. nine0007 USB interfaces If we talk about this segment of devices, the most interesting solutions are audio/MIDI hybrids that combine a MIDI keyboard with a small number of programmable controllers and a sound interface. nine0007 Separately, it is worth noting that almost all modern models of MIDI keyboards are now connected via a USB port. It is very convenient.
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While software developers were throwing themselves out of the fire and into the frying pan, hardware manufacturers seemed to be in thought: to release something radically new, or to update the old. The majority preferred the second option, and therefore we can say that this year has passed rather faceless.
This technology is called AVEX (abbreviation for Audio Video EXchange — exchange between audio and video). Its essence lies in the fact that audio data is converted in a certain way into video and sent for processing by the video adapter processor.
That is, within the framework of what was proposed by BionicFX, and as a fact, was provided by Nvidia, technologically there is nothing new. BionicFX suggests using video adapter processors for data conversion. This can be described step by step as follows:
Their essence lies in the fact that due to their own processors, when processing audio, they can unload the central one. This solution is not cheap, one such board costs about $1000. Moreover, the number of effects is limited.
But in complex, the situation resembles the creation of multiprocessor stations, that is, the distribution of functions to different processors. If I’m not mistaken, this is somewhat similar to the hierarchical model of the old Atari multimedia computers.
Manufacturers of the latter offered extended multi-channel, built-in effect modules, in some cases support for ASIO drivers, a mandatory digital output / output, etc. This proved to be effective. A striking example of this is the Turtle Beach Catalina PCI board, which costs about $50.
Having implemented 7.1 at the digital and analog levels, as well as supporting EAX, A3D, I3DL2, Sensaura Virtual Ear and DirectSound 3D technologies, the developers somehow forgot about ASIO drivers. At least, I have not read in any of the specifications about the implementation of such. Otherwise, everything is standard — 24 bit / 96 kHz, there is a digital input and output. The digital output can carry Dolby Digital and DTS encoded multi-channel audio for up to 7.1 systems. Everybody! Can you be a little more specific? You can’t because there is no data.
Given the design features, this development is both unique and beautiful at the same time.
Prices for such solutions «bite» quite strongly (about $300 and more). The bandwidth of the USB port somewhat limits the capabilities of these devices, in particular, when switching to a multi-channel mode, the developers provide for the option of lowering the sampling rate. As a way out of this situation, they began to consider the introduction of Firewire. This year, the M-Audio Firewire 410 ($445) model, which is an audio interface (not a hybrid) with advanced features and an increased number of digital and analog inputs / outputs, has taken a fairly strong position.
ru/170066/page-1.html Speech development delay: how to help a child speak
Speech development delay is one of the most pressing problems in pediatric neurology today, which, unfortunately, also affects absolutely healthy children. Often the parents themselves are the cause of the child’s speech difficulties. The chief pediatric neurologist of the Ministry of Health of the Tver Region, Galina Anatolyevna Zueva, tells what to do and what should not be done in any case so that the child speaks correctly and on time. nine0007
Hello dear parents!
Today our conversation is devoted to a very important and urgent problem — the speech development of children. In the last few years, we have increasingly heard that a child who does not speak at 2.5-3 years old is a variant of the norm, that there is nothing wrong with that, you need to wait a bit, and speech will appear. In fact, this approach is fundamentally wrong.
There are physiological norms for proper speech and mental development, and it is very important to monitor their observance from the very birth of a child. Only in this case, he will be able to develop harmoniously and fully. nine0007
The main stages in the development of a child’s speech
You can start developing your baby’s speech from the first day of his birth.
The first thing to notice is how the baby cries. The crying of a child from birth is very different, it becomes especially expressive by the first month of life, from it you can understand what the baby needs: it is cold, it hurts, he wants to eat or go to the toilet, or maybe he just wants his mother to take it in her arms . If the child does everything right intonation, then the attentive mother quickly learns to understand the difference and respond to these “requests”. In this case, mental, and then speech development occurs harmoniously. If the baby cries monotonously, at the same level, and does not respond well to the voice, consult a doctor.
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If the child is healthy and does not have hearing problems, then in response to positive emotions in the second month of life, he begins to “walk”. Together with the «cooing» the first laugh appears — squealing in response to emotional communication with an adult. The sounds of “humming” are already distinguished by a certain variety with a predominance of combinations of guttural and vowel sounds (“gu”, “ge”, “ha”, etc.) With these sounds, he tries to communicate, reacts to what is happening around him. If the baby does not start to “walk”, consult a doctor, he may have a problem with his ears. nine0007
The period of onomatopoeia begins from two months: the baby closely follows mother’s lips when she talks to him, and as if tries to repeat these movements, but so far silently. So, by 3.5-4 months, a true “coo” is formed, where the child focuses on the sound being pronounced, the syllable, as if listening to himself. During the period of true «humming» sounds become long, melodious and more diverse.
Along with guttural and vowels, labial sounds and combinations of vowels with labials are increasingly appearing. nine0007
By the age of six months, the child develops babbling speech — he begins to pronounce some individual letters, syllables. During this period, it is important to track intonations — how he speaks, how he cries. At six months, a healthy child should already be chatting, pronouncing certain syllables, repeating specific sounds after his mother. During the period of babbling, imitation of the sounds of an adult becomes more distinct.
Towards the end of the pre-verbal period, the child’s non-verbal forms of communication with others become more complicated. Communication is carried out with the help of both hands, more differentiated facial expressions and sounds. The child stretches his hands to his mother, utters separate sounds, as if asking «take me.» Then the facial expressions become more complicated. It becomes more expressive, symbolic gestures appear.
The child can communicate with one hand. Babble words of various intonations appear. nine0007
By the age of one, a child should speak 8 to 10 simple words: “mom”, “dad”, “baba”, “give”, “on”, that is, short simple words of several syllables. It is during this period that early speech development ends and motor speech begins to form as a way of communication between people.
After a year and a half, the child easily pronounces familiar and unfamiliar words by imitation, both addressed to him and accidentally heard from others. Intensive development of motor speech usually begins in the second half of the 2nd year of life. Up to one year and six months, a child pronounces about 30 words that are simple in sound composition. At two years old, the child already speaks more than 200 words, he has almost phrasal speech, he should already be able to formulate a simple thought or request: “Mom, let’s go to the store, you promised to buy me a toy.” At the same time, he can still pronounce some sounds indistinctly.
By the age of three, a child’s speech has up to 1200-1500 words, including almost all parts of speech. nine0007
This development is considered normal. But this happens only when the parents constantly talk to the child, tell him stories, sing lullabies. A very big problem today is that live speech is increasingly being replaced by gadgets. Because of this, many children who are initially born healthy from the point of view of neurology do not begin to speak on time.
If a healthy child at 2.5-3 years old does not speak phrasal speech at all and, at best, only speaks single simple words, he has a delay in speech development, and this, unfortunately, must be treated. nine0007
Speech develops gradually
It takes time for a child to learn to speak correctly and build logical, figurative phrases. When a child is just learning to walk, with his mother’s help he takes the first uncertain steps, and after six months or a year he already runs, jumps and dances on his own.
The same thing happens with speech: it develops gradually. The child not only memorizes new words, but at the same time trains articulatory muscles, learns to control intonation. It takes more than one year. Therefore, if at 3-3.5 years old your child is just beginning to pronounce the first words and build simple phrases like “mom, give me,” then by the age of six, when it’s time to go to school, he will not form a full-fledged phrasal speech. It is important to engage in the development of speech gradually, but from a very early age. nine0007
Causes of delayed speech development
The first and most basic reason is brain damage due to ischemia, hemorrhage, infection. But such deviations are diagnosed immediately, doctors monitor the child and take all the necessary measures. These are the patients with whom the neurologist, psychologist and speech therapist are already working.
But there is a category of patients who are born absolutely healthy.
But due to errors in learning, they also begin to delay in speech development. Most often, the reason is the excessive passion of parents for mechanical sound, that is, the sound from a TV, computer, tablet, phone. Children who watch a lot of cartoons or constantly play with singing-talking toys develop passive speech well, but their own active speech is not formed. This is due to the difference in the wavelength of live speech and mechanical speech. In order for the child to start talking, you need to talk with him as much as possible, read fairy tales yourself, sing lullabies. nine0007
Never let the TV or radio play in the background in the room where the baby spends time. Of course, if you want to show your child some kind of cartoon or program on a computer, this can and should be done, but after viewing the device must be turned off and put away.
Of course, all these devices and toys allow mom to relax a little or do some other business. But when they replace live communication, this leads to serious problems with the child’s psyche.
It is better to prevent such things than to catch up for years later. To restore the correct stereotype of speech in a three-year-old child, to change his perception, it takes a lot of effort and time: the child cannot quickly catch up with such gaps, one has to resort to intensive drug treatment, to additional classes with speech therapists. It’s a long and difficult road. Why bring it to this when you can do everything right from the very beginning? nine0007
Why you should sing lullabies
Singing lullabies is an important part of raising a child. The most famous lullabies, for example, “bayu-bayushki-bayu”, were invented back in the 5th-6th century, and it is not by chance that we still sing them to children. They are built specifically in the timbre and wave length fluctuations that are understandable to the child, soothe him, develop the brain. There are songs for every age to sing. Singing such lullabies to a small child and simultaneously rocking him in your arms creates the basis for proper mental development.
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Now many couples approach pregnancy planning with full responsibility: they lead a healthy lifestyle, take all the tests, read books about the health and upbringing of the unborn child. Include in this preparation and learning at least a few lullabies to sing to your baby. No matter how simple they may seem to you, they contain folk wisdom worked out over the centuries for the proper development of a person, this is very important. Sing these lullabies for at least a year.
By the age of two, when the child already understands phrasal speech well, songs can be selected with more storylines, so that while the mother is singing, he can imagine this picture in his head. nine0007
Talk to your child as much as possible
Do not rush to talk to your child, calmly and measuredly tell him what is happening around, voice your actions. Then he will begin to perceive by ear the name of this or that object, this is how passive speech is formed. From six months, add details about the color and volume of objects: “small toy”, “red ball”.
When you do this consistently, the child learns to hear and understand you.
This helps to explain to the baby after a year that the panties should be dry, that is, it is quite early to teach the child to the potty, and not to use diapers all the time. At a year and a half, the child is able to hold the bladder, control his pelvic functions. This is one of the important links in mental development. Of course, he will eventually learn to ask to use the toilet himself, but these skills will come much later and no longer in the form in which he would like.
Therefore, it is very important to accustom yourself to talk with the baby as much as possible and to limit the mechanical sounds around him as much as possible — these are the most important links in the prevention of speech development delay. If we build this correctly, then at the age of 2.5 the child begins to speak in phrase speech, and parents have no problems with his behavior and learning. If your child at 2.
5 years old does not speak, especially if there is no so-called gibberish of his own, he is silent and does not voice the game, asking you for something, then this is not a variant of the norm, this is a problem that needs to be dealt with. nine0007
How to talk to a child
- You need to talk to your child in a normal tone, it is this tone and tone that the child knows from his prenatal state.
- Try to speak in simple phrases, but do not lisp, do not distort words.
- If a child has a problem with vision or hearing, then mom needs to start brightly painting her lips as soon as possible so that he can follow her lips and understand exactly how she pronounces sounds. nine0036
- If a child in the first year of life had problems with swallowing, then, unfortunately, problems with sound pronunciation cannot be avoided. You can start studying with a special speech therapist already in the first months of a baby’s life, even in the pre-speech period.
- Deal with all problems as soon as they appear, do not delay and do not wait for it to pass by itself. It won’t pass.
Ordinary or speech therapy garden?
So, the child has grown up, and it’s time to decide which preschool institution to take him to. At this point, it is important to figure out if your baby has mental and speech problems, and which ones. nine0007
When your baby has no serious medical problems, start with a regular garden. If in the first year speech does not level off and does not develop to the desired level, then it is worth applying for the medical and pedagogical commission. It runs from February to June. You can get a referral from the day care center or call them and make an appointment. To pass the medical and pedagogical commission, you must have the conclusion of a neurologist, speech therapist, psychiatrist about the state of health of your child. nine0007
If a child has begun to speak in phrasal speech, but does not pronounce certain sounds, then you can take him to a regular kindergarten, which has speech therapy groups.
They work with children with normal psycho-speech development, but with incorrect settings for the sounds themselves. Usually a speech therapist starts working with such children from the age of five in order to even out speech and correct all weak sounds by school. On average, it takes three months to set up and fix one sound.
One of the most common disorders in children aged 3-3.5 years is the so-called porridge in the mouth, when, due to a violation of the innervation of the speech muscles, the child cannot pronounce some of the sounds clearly and understandably. In this case, one cannot do without the help of a specialist, it is better to contact a neurologist to establish the exact cause of dysarthria and carry out the necessary treatment, if necessary, it is also necessary to visit a special speech therapy garden. It requires an integrated approach: simultaneous coordinated work of a speech therapist, neurologist and psychologist. nine0007
The Medical and Pedagogical Commission is in charge of assigning children to specialized groups or kindergartens.
And again I repeat, it is much easier to deal with the prevention of speech development delay, so that those children who could speak, but due to insufficient attention from their parents, did not start, did not fall into special groups. To do this, it is important not just to talk with the child, but to hear what he is talking about, try to understand him and respond to his words. I assure you, if you establish this contact from childhood, it will last for a lifetime, help the baby become a good member of the family, society, reliable support and support for you. nine0007
How to prevent stuttering
There are cases when a child doesn’t start talking for a long time, while he is being taught, he accumulates a large passive vocabulary, he can compose phrases in his head. If you start his speech process excessively actively, then he will not cope with the flow of speech and will begin to stutter. Most often this happens at 2.5-3 years. Children with tics are especially prone to stuttering (obsessive blinking, blinking, sniffing, and the like).
If you notice that at the beginning of speech the child begins to stutter, this is a signal that you need to contact a neurologist to solve the problem. Of all the obsessive-compulsive disorders, stuttering is the most complex and can take years to cure. nine0007
The nipple and speech development of the child
Another important aspect of the prevention of delayed speech development is prolonged use of nipples and prolonged breastfeeding. I mean the situation when a pacifier or mother’s breast is in the child’s mouth not for calming or feeding, but just like that, in a state of wakefulness. In this case, the problem arises purely mechanical: in order to speak, the mouth must be free, and if the mouth is occupied, then it is impossible to speak — the nipple or chest interferes. nine0007
The pacifier can be used when the baby falls asleep, when sick, when hit, but must be removed when awake. After two years, the pacifier should be discarded completely. This will help to avoid speech problems and maintain the correct bite, which will significantly reduce your financial costs in the future when treating your beloved child’s ugly teeth by an orthodontist.
The same applies to the mother’s breast. It should be a source of food or a means of sedation, nothing more. Of course, breast milk contains a lot of good substances, but it is needed exactly until the child begins to eat normal human food. Breast sucking is very important for the formation of psychological communication between mother and child. But by the age of two, the child already understands the addressed speech well, he can speak himself, so this connection only strengthens and will not be interrupted after weaning the child from the breast. nine0007
It is important to wean your baby from thumb sucking from the very beginning. By the age of 2.5-3 years, the child should be able to safely do without a pacifier, mother’s breast or sucking fingers. Why? During sucking, rocking-translational movements give a feeling of calm, sedation. With age, the child’s need for such movements weakens, now he needs to learn about the world around him, to be active. And if the child continues to suck a finger or a dummy, then he automatically transfers himself to the infant period, behaves like a baby and does not give himself the opportunity to fully develop.
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Gadgets: harm or benefit
Modern devices, on the one hand, are very useful, but when it comes to children, you need to be extremely careful and careful. Nobody says that you don’t need to use TV and gadgets at all. This is an important part of modern life, children should be able to master them. But a small child still does not have the skills of speech, movements, motor skills, proper mental development, criticism, self-criticism, and the ability to control oneself are incorrectly formed. Therefore, it is very dangerous to uncontrollably give him something that can provoke improper development. nine0007
In Russia, little is said about this, and today in most families gadgets are used beyond the permissible measure, for each family member, including a baby, there are two to three gadgets. At the same time, in the same high-tech Japan, children are allowed to use a telephone or computer only from the age of five, when the nervous system has matured.
And I agree with their approach. Yes, you can include some educational games or cartoons for your child, but no more than 30-40 minutes a day on a good screen with good sound. Tablets and smartphones are best avoided because young children quickly form color and tactile addictions. nine0007
Into the wilderness, to the village
Finally, I would like to advise all parents to spend more time outdoors with their children. This will be especially useful for kids who have problems with psycho-speech development. The best thing is to leave for a few weeks or even months in the countryside, where there are only living sounds of nature from a running stream, the rustle of leaves on trees, the buzzing of a bee and other sounds, where there is no urban, mechanical sound from the buzzing of wires. This will not only help normalize sleep, give peace of mind, but also enable the child’s brain overloaded with information to rest and gain strength to overcome all difficulties in speech development.
