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Don't measure children who are still in the learning stage by the standard of adult eloquence!
Once watched the animated movie "Nezha" with CC at home.
What impressed me particularly was that at every critical moment, Shen Gongbao was prone to stuttering, making CC laugh...
The characters in the movie are stuttering, but it is just to amuse everyone, but the stuttering of children in life is indeed a very urgent thing.
This is not my family downstairs has a super strong desire to express, but not very neat talk.
Every time I described something, I stuttered and couldn't say it clearly for half a day.
"Me me me me I'm going to eat watermelon";
"Me me me me I don't wear clothes." ；
……
Whenever this happens, the child's grandmother will say, "Think about it and talk about it!" ”
When children first learn to speak, it is inevitable that they will repeat too much and stutter.
C Mom, my baby has been saying a sentence recently, but the first word has to be repeated many times to say it, is the child stuttering?
My son is more than 2 years old, and he has not stuttered before, but recently he has inexplicably begun to stutter, and it seems to be getting more and more serious.
It seems that many children go through such a stage, and DD now occasionally stutters when speaking.
However, stuttering and incoherence like children doesn't really need to worry too much.
According to a university study from the University of Utah, about 5% of children experience symptoms of stuttering (stuttering, incoherence, etc.), but only 0.5% to 1% of adults still stutter.
In other words, about 75% of children can heal themselves.
C's mother also found a video, is it a bit similar to her baby's stuttering?
Why do children stutter
1. The necessary stage of the language development process
By the time children are around 3 years old, they begin to be able to combine individual words into sentences.
For example: DD wants to go downstairs to play.
He used to say, "Mom, go downstairs?" ”
Now he would say, "Mom, take me downstairs to play." ”
Don't look at the second sentence and there are no more words than the first sentence, the two have essential differences in vocabulary, sentence length and expression difficulty.
This marks the beginning of a child's learning to express themselves in complex sentence patterns and complex grammatical rules, which is a remarkable leap forward.
Therefore, in the process of learning, imitating, and using complex statements, the stumbling and stuttering caused by organizing statements are the only way to go.
At this stage, parents should allow the child to stutter a little, because this is the child's performance of organizing language in the mind!
2, the brain is faster than the mouth
In the BBC documentary "The Secret Life of a Baby", there is a point that babies know far more than they express!
That is to say: from the birth of the baby to the age of two or three, many babies will experience a period of difficulty in expression, and as the baby continues to practice speaking, the situation can gradually improve.
Moreover, the vast majority of babies can survive this period safely.
Here's a simple example:
Once, when I was walking with my girlfriend, I met a foreign friend who asked us for directions.
The roadmap quickly came to mind, but when I answered, I stuttered and didn't flow at all.
(Although C's English level is not high, but simply pointing the way should not be stumbling!) ）
This situation is the same as the stuttering situation of babies!
The root cause of this stuttering is because the speed of thinking exceeds the speed of speech, and the language expression cannot keep up with what the mind thinks.
I want to express a lot, but suddenly I don't find the right words, and I have to express them in a hurry, which leads to incoherence, pauses or repetitions of the same word.
So, although the baby's stuttering at the beginning of speech looks very similar to medical "stuttering", it is not really stuttering!
In fact, the two can be easily distinguished.
True stuttering: A speech disorder in which excessive, uncontrollable speech repetition, lengthening, and jamming when speaking results in the inability to express properly.
It also includes fear of specific phonemes (usually consonants), words, and words, fear of specific situations, anxiety, nervousness, shyness, and feelings of "out of control" in speech.
Baby's stuttering: in the normal development stage of language, the phenomenon of fluency in sentences when speaking.
It often manifests itself as pauses between words, the use of exclamations, self-correction, and repetition of phrases.
If this is still not obvious enough, then remember this time: 6 months.
If the child stutters for more than 6 consecutive months, it will get our attention!
Because, this may be what is called "stuttering" in medicine.
This is where we need further intervention and seek the help of a doctor or a speech therapist.
According to the standards of The Stuttering Foundation of America, Mama C also made the following table for observation, comparison and judgment.
Although this kind of stuttering behavior of the child does not need to worry too much.
However, whenever a child stutters and speaks, not only the adults who are listening next to him are anxious, but the child himself is also very anxious, and it is particularly easy to fall into a vicious circle of more and more anxious and more anxious, and the more anxious, the more bad it is.
Therefore, next, C mom recommends a few small ways to deal with the child's stuttering, which can be used when communicating with the child in normal times!
How to improve your child's stuttering?
1. Slow down your speaking first
If you want your child to speak fluently, the first thing to do is to slow down your speech speed.
Especially for parents of acute children, they need to slow down their speech speed and not urge their children one by one.
Urging, will give the child a feeling of uncontrollable, which will also increase the child's anxiety in the subconscious, thereby affecting the child's language expression.
Moreover, we should also pay attention to the rhythm of the child when asking questions to the child, it is best to ask only one question at a time, and then ask the next one after the child answers.
With the rhythm that the child can adapt to, you can effectively alleviate the child's stuttering problem!
2. Reduce the pressure of AC
Like the example we mentioned at the beginning.
Whenever the child stutters a little, the child's grandmother will remind: "Think about it and then say it."
Others will rush to correct it, or simply order their children to repeat it.
What's more, the child may get angry or correct it harshly.
All of the above behaviors, whether gentle or harsh, will more or less increase the pressure of communication in children.
The child wants to say it and is afraid that he will not be able to say it well, and every time he opens his mouth, he becomes nervous, and every expression will produce a lot of pressure. Of course, it is not good to talk!
Therefore, when the child speaks, especially when the child stutters, we must have enough patience, do not rush to speak for the child, and do not show impatience.
Listen more, encourage more, help children create a relaxed atmosphere, tell children with a peaceful attitude, speak slowly, do not worry, and children's expression will become more and more fluent.
C Mom said
Many children go through a period of time in the development of language that is long or short, and the speech is not too smooth. It's like a small bug in a child's formative years, and in most cases children can fix it themselves.
What we can do is: adjust our mentality, don't be overly nervous, and don't pass on the anxiety to the child. And don't measure children who are still in the learning stage by the standard of adult eloquence.
Give the children a little more patience, I believe that one day the child will grow into a small trumpet that can speak the Tao!
Source of this article: CD Mom and Dad
This article is written by CD Mom
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