Help children understand and express in language

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Children with delay in speech and language development are quite common nowadays. There are many factors that affect children's speech and language development. It may be due to a medical condition that makes it difficult to pronounce words correctly or it may be due to a disorder in language processing. Therefore, techniques can be applied to help children understand and express in language.

1. What is the child's definition of understanding and being able to express language?

Language comprehension is the child understanding what others say or do. Understanding language can be verbal or non-verbal. Language comprehension always precedes language expression.
Expressive language is how children communicate with people around them. Expressing language can be by gestures, pictures or showing vocabulary, grammar, sentence length, and how children use language.
Therefore, the technique of teaching children to understand and express language is the application of teaching activities at each level to assess the child's development.

2. Causes affecting children's language ability

Common causes of children's delay in speech as well as their language ability
Have oral diseases:
Children with cleft palate, short tongue restricting the movement of the tip of the tongue, affecting pronunciation, harder to hear than usual. Children with cleft palate can be detected soon after birth, short tongue can also be detected before the child begins to speak.
Neurological diseases such as cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, and brain injury can also affect the muscles needed to speak.
Have a disease of mouth movement, disorder of sound processing:
Children have trouble in areas of the brain involved in speech, for example, children with dysarthria (loss of coordination in speech) ).
When a child has a speech disorder, the child cannot control the muscles and parts of the body used to speak.
Sound processing disorder is a child's inability to understand the sounds of speech. Children in this group can be treated with speech therapy.
Children with developmental delay in general:
Delay in speech can also be one of the manifestations when a child has a developmental delay. Children's motor and cognitive development does not keep up with age.
Children with autism, learning difficulties:
Speech and language disorders are often early manifestations of autism.
Children with hearing problems:
Children with hearing problems make it difficult for them to hear sounds from outside, and at the same time have difficulty in their own voice. Therefore, the ability to acquire and learn language is often low
Having an ear infection due to an ear infection if not detected and treated in time can increase the risk of speech delay
Premature babies Other causes Young living environment If you don't care and don't listen to what others say, you won't be able to learn to speak.

3. When is the technique used to help children understand and express in language?

When children speak difficult due to brain damage. Children with slurred speech. Children with mental retardation and language retardation. Children with autism, children with hearing impairment.

4. Implement techniques to help children understand and express in language

Practice time: 20-30 minutes each time.
Conduct:
Step 1: Assess language comprehension and expression skills according to the model. Step 2: Conduct intervention for children. Choose goals for each treatment session: choose 2 skills the child can sometimes do and 1 skill the child can't do in the assessment sheet.
If you complete those 3 skills, you will continue to choose the next skills.
4.1 Training in language comprehension Skills for teaching language comprehension:
Children must understand sounds, use words and sentences to express themselves before speaking. Parents and relatives need to talk a lot with their children, using simple, easy-to-understand languages, and speaking slowly and loudly. Can be combined with words and gestures to help children understand. Use only 1 or a few objects and pictures to make it easier for children to absorb. 4.2 Train language expression skills Express through colorful signs, pictures, and symbols to keep children interested. Verbal expression.
Monitor the child's progress and progress after each intervention.
Children with speech delay can be due to pathological or psychological causes, for effective treatment, finding the exact cause is very important. Delayed speech, if left untreated for a long time, will cause serious effects on children's development and even make it difficult to treat. Therefore, as soon as they notice signs of speech delay in children, parents should take the child to see a pediatrician or psychologist immediately.
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Reference source: Ministry of Health