ASSIST YOUR CHILD TO TALK

I LIKE MY CHILD TO TALK WELL.
Researches have cleared the doubt that the infant inside the mother’s uterus can listen to the language after the formation of sensitive parts for ear and listening. The sensitive area of hearing is one of the best creations of Mother Nature. Because it can filter and imbibe only the human voice. Other wise imagine children living near railway stations, harbors, air port, and forests will make sounds only like the trains, planes, animals and ships.
Dr.Montessori has studied the importance of human language and helped us to make the new born infant to develop the most important identity of humans. This identity is the language. Language makes the infant to put his strong step into the freedom of self expression. There are many important stages in the child’s life to associate with language.
The article will help us to provide the clear good language development to our children.
VERY IMPORTANT POINT FOR PARENTS
Dr.Montessori has strongly insisted the importance of mother tongue. The parents must talk only in mother tongue. If the family is bi lingual, one parent must talk in one language and other in other language. The human brain is very sensitive in this stage and the sensitivity for language is very sharp. So the language available in the child’s environment influences his personality and expression.
· Human child’s mind is burning like a pier which can absorb and digest any units of culture and intelligence.
· Child’s cry is the very first self expression but it is not the language. But we must listen and respect the cry call and attend to his needs.
· From birth to 3 months give more possible exposure to visual images, objects with proper names in proper pronunciation. But please do not expect the child to repeat and memorize any things.
· In first few months the child will express many sounds of consonants.
· By 5.5 to 6 months the child utters the very first word. It will have an inner meaning.
· By this time the child is very clear about a fact that every object has a name.
· From the day 1 after birth slowly talk in slow calm sweet voice but not babyish talk.
· The child can hear and imbibe a long conversation also. By 1.5 years children are capable of listening and understanding our conversations. So let us be very clear about our language and its content.
· Emotional stressful shouting, abusing words, horrible high noises will damage child’s sensitive periods and pull down its security and self confidence.
· By 6 to 10 months the child can understand that the object with name makes a meaning for communication and it makes the child to take more steps towards social behavior.
· So he tries his best to communicate by gathering all the sounds, words to express his need which is called the babbling talk. It is very important for the family members to listen to his talks but to respond in normal speech. We need got give the respond in the same babbling talk. Provide the correct words and expressions.
· Make the child to listen, observe various songs, sweet music and expose to even concerts.
· We can also read stories from the books and show pictures with correct names.
· Grammar for spoken language can be given in this stage. The brain has the power of analysis and makes use of them.
· Books can be read with big colorful pictures from the stage when the child can sit on your laps.
· By 1 year the child develops the self thinking and suddenly starts talking. This is called the ‘’EXPLOSION OF LANGUAGE’’. It is very good to listen and respond to them.
· Before the age of 6 the human brain is craving for vocabulary and we can enrich the vocabulary skill by talking, showing, reading and other activities but without expecting that the child will say it out immediately.
· Enrichment of vocabulary is respected as the child’s real treasure because it makes him to communicate with the environment and express his self needs and personality.
· Better not to give any one word answer.
· Pacifier and artificial gums will stop the tongue from language development. They will pull down child’s self confidence.
· When the child sucks mother’s breasts please observe the movements of the lips and mouth. This exercise is very important preparation for the mouth muscles and tongue and also for nerves to talk.
· Children who has not experienced with mother’s milk lack concentration and confidence to pick up the language.
· We are the real resource and materials for the language development of the child.
· Please do not hurry up the beginners who have just started talking. It will reduce their confidence and expression.
· A child who has developed good spoken skills will reach a good level of written expression later in his life.
· Finally it is very important that the child’s language is the mirror which reflects our language, culture and behavior.
· BE AWARE WHEN YOU ARE TALKING TO YOUR CHILD!