In August, the Xiamen Center welcomed a fiery mother, who came up and denounced her mother-in-law's behavior. It turned out that the son was 2 and a half years old at the time, and the pronunciation problem had existed for nearly 4 months, and because the two sons had to travel at the same time, they entrusted the child to the grandmother to take care of it.
Who wants to come home after half a month, after the end of the work, the child's grandmother smiled and reported the situation of the eldest grandson during this time, she heard the neighbor say that the reason why the grandson has pronunciation problems is because of the short tongue, so she is good at advocating taking the child to the hospital to cut the tongue tie.
The mother broke out on the spot, usually you are used to the child, how can you take the child to the operation without our consent? Simply inexplicable! "You know what's wrong with the short tongue ties! If something happens to the child, I'm not done with your family! ”
After listening to this, our center director also does not know what to say, there are many cases of blind cutting and tying of children's tongues, and we have also seen many families have caused conflicts. From a medical point of view, the child's pronunciation problem is actually called dysarthria, and only language correction can be completely solved.
Inaccurate pronunciation does not represent a lesion of the tongue
When the child has the problem of inaccurate pronunciation and unclear speech, many people will immediately put the title of "big tongue" on the child. Although the big tongue refers to the pronunciation problem of a person when speaking, in fact, inaccurate pronunciation has little to do with tongue lesions.
According to our many years of experience, the causes of children's pronunciation problems are nothing more than two points, one is physiological abnormalities, and the other is developmental problems. Physiological abnormalities are congenital and acquired, it is generally believed that the tongue lesions account for only a very small part, and the vast majority of children's pronunciation problems are caused by developmental problems.
What are developmental problems? In fact, the language environment where the child is located is not pure, and the parents have not taught well. At the beginning of the article, the child has been examined in the hospital, and there is no problem with the body, so there is only one source of pronunciation problems in the child - the language environment is poor, and the education has not kept up.
According to my mother, the two of them are catching up with the rising period of their careers, usually quite busy, the family also hired a nanny, and occasionally let the grandmother take a few days. The nanny is from Hubei, they are from Zhejiang, and the child has been sandwiched between two difficult dialects since childhood, which has led to language confusion.
So, the child has a problem with pronunciation, don't always throw the responsibility to the tongue, or first see where you are not doing well!
What are the basis for judging dysarthria?
Children who have just learned to speak for a few years, it is normal to have some pronunciation problems, most of the situations do not need parents to worry too much, we just need to correct the child's pronunciation error in time. However, if the child has the following situations, we should be vigilant, the child's pronunciation problems may already be a dysarthria disorder:
1. Children are born with physical problems, such as cleft lip and palate, hearing impairment, cerebral palsy, etc
2. Pronunciation problems with specific syllables in children persist for more than 6 months
3. The child's mispronounced syllables are already mastered by their age, such as when they are 3 years old, they can't distinguish between /d/ and /t/
4. The child has been traumatized, resulting in abnormal function of the vocal organs
It can be said that if the child has even one of the above conditions, then the baby has a high probability of dysarthria, but what kind of dysarthria is specific, how to correct it, but also need to ask the doctor or language corrector for more advice.
Language correction is the only way forward
Children's language acquisition is a gradual process, from pre-language, vocabulary, sentence-building to maturity, at least 4 years. Learning to speak is a natural process that doesn't require excessive human intervention, as long as we provide our children with plenty of language stimulation.
When there is a problem with the child's pronunciation, either the child's own health has changed, or the long-term poor language environment and education have detonated a time bomb. Whatever the cause of the pronunciation problem, it is no longer within the scope of the parent's ability to be sharp, and the child needs to undergo scientific language correction.
For most people, language correction seems to be a new and unpopular industry, and the vast majority of ordinary families will not intersect with us in their lifetime. But for families with children with language impairments, language correction is the only known activity that addresses the language barrier.
Compared with teaching and practicing blindly at home, the biggest advantage of language correction is systematic and scientific. Its curriculum conforms to the laws of infant and young child language development, and at the same time follows the training principles from easy to difficult, from simple to complex, and formulates personalized correction plans according to each child's situation.
Compared to some people's more belief in methods such as massage, electrotherapy, and acupuncture, language correction can radically improve a child's pronunciation habits rather than being temporarily effective. If you have some understanding of language correction, you will understand how significant the correction effect of one-on-one systematic courses is.