Children with lisp: Causes and effective treatment

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Most children lisp but do not write incorrectly, but there are also cases where children who lisp write in their own language incorrectly pronounce it, leading to spelling mistakes. Many cases of children who are beyond this age but still mispronounce, speak with unclear sounds, and slur require prompt intervention.

1. What is lisp?

Lisp is a language disorder. Children's language is formed on the basis of conditioned reflexes. Language is formed from the effects of external environmental factors that stimulate hearing. Lisp is common in children, and many adults also suffer from it.
There can be many different causes that lead to language disorders in children, especially slurred speech.

2. Causes of lisp in children

2.1. Congenital causes

Due to the structure of the pronunciation line is deformed, the tongue is short, the tongue is full, the mouth is damaged or the congenital diseases such as cleft lip and palate, cleft palate lead to the child's lisp. In addition, it is possible that due to the structure of hearing, children can't hear well, can't hear well, can't hear, so they don't have enough vocabulary to use or use, but they use it wrongly (due to wrong hearing) so they become livid.

2.2. Other causes

When I was a child, the structure of parts such as tongue, uvula, jaw, lips, teeth,... was not yet perfected. Therefore, when children learn to speak, they will almost always have slurred speech, unclear pronunciation, and incorrect pronunciation. These manifestations will gradually disappear as the child grows up because these organs have been more perfected.
Regular use of pacifiers is also one of the causes of slurred speech. It sounds absurd, but many scientists have proven that, when giving children a lot of pacifiers, continuously will lead to the tongue sticking out, so according to the habit, when pronouncing the child's tongue often comes out. cause the sound to be distorted.
Behavioral disorders are also one of the causes of sound disorders. When playing, watching TV, playing mobile phones, playing games too much, children learn visual and speech language without following the usual rules of listening - speaking, causing unstimulated hearing, causing pronunciation disorders and irritability.
Language habits of adults directly affect the language formation of children. Children at a young age are like blank pages, adults want to write what they want to draw, children learn like that. Children learn to speak, from whom? It's a family member. Grandparents, grandparents, parents, brothers, sisters, brothers, neighbors, ... anyone that the child comes into contact with are the child's speech teachers. If these people don't pronounce properly, slurred, they will also be wrong when imitating them. This can be seen as quite common, many places are confused by region.

3. How to cure a child's slur

It is completely normal for a child between the ages of 2 and 4 years old to have a lisp, but if after the age of 4, the child still has not been able to correct the stuttering phenomenon, parents need to see if the child has any abnormalities, find out the cause and find how to cure slur in children.
How to cure a child's slur will depend on the cause, so the most important thing when treating a child's slur is to find out what is causing the condition. Children with poor hearing, pronunciation problems or abnormalities in the ears, nose and throat, or a family with a lisp, due to watching too much TV,...

Often, the stuttering in children will be markedly improved with speech therapy treatment. Depending on the child's slurred speech, the doctor will give the child different intensive speech therapy exercises, suitable for the baby. Using this method will help children change the pronunciation and use of the tongue, thereby speaking more clearly and accurately.
In cases of lisp due to congenital pathology, early intervention measures are needed to help children improve their speaking ability. Without timely intervention, it will lead to limitations in expressing opinions and emotions, leading to inappropriate behaviors such as boredom, anger, aggression, stress, loss of confidence, and shyness. communicate.
It is possible to cure lisp for children at home, parents need to be patient. It should be noted when treating slurred speech for children:
Keep the baby in a relaxed state of mind, do not cause stress or put pressure on the baby. Slowly guide the baby how to put the tongue, how to take breath, model for the baby so that the baby can follow. Pay attention to the pronunciation of yourself as well as other family members, limit your child's contact with people who speak lisp. Create a large environment for children like in a park where there are many people, let them participate in activities to help them increase their ability to communicate with people. When talking or singing to your baby, you must use correct and regular words, your baby will imitate what you say and sing. With words that your baby stutters, you need to memorize and repeat many times to be correct, let your baby repeat what you said. When a child has a lisp, you should not imitate the lisp, it will make the child not aware that he has mispronounced, and at the same time make his slurred speech worse.

4. Where is the child with lisp?

Lying is a fairly common problem in young children during the period when children learn to speak, with cases where children who stutter due to environmental factors can completely cure their lisp at home. However, if conventional methods do not work, the child should be examined by a doctor. So where is the child who stutters to be examined?
Children need to be taken to a pediatric psychiatry facility or a mental health facility with a pediatric psychiatry specialty for in-depth examination. Currently, Vinmec is one of the few hospitals that has a team of highly trained psychiatrists, including in the field of Pediatric Psychiatry, who will examine, evaluate and guide interventions for children with mental health problems. topic of language development. Doctors will use the Denver scale to assess the child's general development, autism assessment scales (if needed), dental exam, ENT exam, EEG or brain imaging (if needed). needed) to comprehensively assess the child's lisp problem in order to provide an appropriate diagnosis and intervention strategy.
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