Support strategies for language stimulation - Part II
Stimulating language in children is a task that requires time to achieve the goals; It is not just about carrying out the activities in a single day and letting them pass, it is necessary to be consistent to overcome all the vicissitudes that are imposed on us along the way.
Educators and parents have a duty to do their best as individuals and as examples that when they persevere, they can change lives.
Children with speech difficulties are the most affected, an example of which is observed in:
- His way of behaving.
- Frustration.
- Being very withdrawn.
- Children do not feel safe to do things.
- They do not feel with good self-esteem.
- Children as well as adults are capable of having these mixed feelings, therefore, from the process of growth and development of their abilities, we must provide the best tools that favor their growth.
Language stimulation activity
Important factors that intervene within the processes applied in language strategies, derive some of importance such as:
- The repetition of things.
- The experience gained.
- Functionality to do and say, the emergence of acquired experience.
- Good articulation.
The idea of the activity is to complement the described skills that are acquired in practice, that is, to make them a reality.
They can use for the activity any toy that contains several identical figures and that are of different colors; In this case a basket with colored eggs.
The idea is to increase functional words, that is, for children to repeat what the adult says when showing the object in function.
Example:
- The egg fell out.
- Wow, the egg is big and green.
- Oh, the eggs spin.
Intersection words should be used and attached to that a verb, which can be used frequently in several words and in this way the child can integrate it.
It is positive to make movements while speaking using the verbs, as this will give more meaning.
So then it works for the activity:
- The repetition, which is constant.
- The same vocabulary is used over and over, but the color object changes.
Children in this way will be able to tell what are the words that will change and the colors in the same broadcast. The idea is to make a communicative interaction that involves movements and speech.
