How to stimulate early communication for young children

Communicative language is a training process in children. For children with speech delay or language disorder who will have difficulty communicating, parents need to take measures to help children develop language. Early communication stimulation for young children is the stimulation that helps children develop tracking skills, concentration, imitation skills and turns combined with play skills and development.

Parents need to stimulate the child's language ability in the following cases:
The child has difficulty speaking due to brain damage The child stutters and stutters. Children with mental retardation and language retardation. Children with autism. Caregivers can use tools to support and help children communicate, including: Books, stories, pictures, toys

Stimulating the ability to observe in children Place children close to talk, cuddle and show a variety of facial expressions such as smiling, happy, sad... for children to observe. Offer toys of different colors and shapes to create excitement and newness for children to follow. Play a game of smack with the child, waiting for the child to follow your face. Use movable objects such as rolling the ball at the child to follow and ask the child to reach out and catch the ball. Hide familiar toys and objects (spoons, cups...) and let children find them.
Stimulate children to listen Shake the toys that make sounds (dice, chits), ... for children to hear. Play games that make noises such as imitating the sounds of animals for children to hear, wait for them to pronounce them. Clap, talk, sing, read poetry or simply turn on cheerful children's music for them to listen to. . It is important to observe the child's facial expressions when listening to different sounds. Children can be played in groups such as: calling each child's name, children raising their hands when called. Practice imitation and follow-up skills
Imitation Children learn everything through following gestures, mimicking facial expressions, body movements like raising hands, saying goodbye..., imitating actions like playing with toys, imitating sounds and words,... In turn is an important skill that children need to learn

The technician caressed the baby with sound, tickled the belly lightly, waited for the baby to laugh, petted and tickled again, and waited for the baby to react. Children make sounds, we imitate their sounds, wait for them to react Take actions: clap hands, raise hands, let children follow Clap praise children. Play skills training The purpose of play is that through play children learn a lot about early communication skills, language skills, gross motor skills (crawling, crawling, standing, walking). Fine motor skills (grabbing objects, reaching for grips). Daily living skills (washing hands, dressing...), feeling (seeing, hearing, touching), exploring the world around
Play activities include: Sensory games, motor games . Gesture training and gesturing are an important part of communication. Every day we use gestures to communicate with others.
Eye contact: Children will raise their eyes and focus on the object they want or body movements such as: reaching out their hand to ask, bowing their head to ask for what the child wants. Pointing, reaching for the object you want, or raising your hand to ask for a hold, raising your hand when saying goodbye.

Communicating with pictures Using picture cards to teach preschoolers: help children recognize animals and objects in pictures, let children play the game of finding picture cards of animals they know in 2, 3... cards different paintings.
Matching: Matching pictures with pictures, objects with pictures, real people with pictures... dialogue through pictures. Monitor your child's progress through practice sessions. Parents also need to pay attention and follow the above exercises to stimulate daily language development for children.
Thus, in order to stimulate the child's language ability, parents and caregivers can apply the above ways for children to get used to and develop well day by day. If necessary, the child can be taken to medical facilities for evaluation and instructions from a specialist doctor.

Source: Ministry of Health