An Insight On Speech And Language Skills For Children

By Jose Allen


Communication is actually a common vital aspect of life. It refers to the process of allowing the conveyance of information between people. Language remains an imperative skill which allows communication with each other. For every developmental stage in life, Speech and Language Skills for children remains an essential process that ought to be carried out early enough at a time when the brain remains fresh and still ready to learn.

Basically, at birth a kid has a tabula rasa brain, the brain is empty but it is later filled with what the kid hears from the surroundings. Generally, kids can develop speech by themselves by listening to the guardian and the people around and what the environment offers. All in all, language skills are best mastered when taught, and mostly at a younger age.

The two aspects are totally different from each other, one language consist of set of social standards that indicate the comprehension of the meaning of words, putting words together in a sentence in order to communicate a message and interpret commands and direction shared by others. Kids must develop these vital skills of life in order to relate with peers, parents, and grow to be social being.

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 lowers himself or herself to the child level and have a one on one face talk and turn every joint activity as learning activity. Finally, provide a rich learning environment, and be a role model as well as speak clearly and correctly.




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