How can I improve my child's slurred speech?

Many parents who are taking care of children have found that their children always pronounce words incorrectly, and it is impossible to understand the meaning of some of the words they say, so they worry that their children will always speak unclearly. So what methods should be used to help solve this situation for children like this? For this purpose, the editor has summarized the relevant information. Let’s read it together below.

For such children, the first thing to do is to have a hearing test to rule out hearing impairment. Current hearing screening technology can perform hearing tests on infants and young children 3 days after birth, determine their hearing status within 3 months, and provide hearing rehabilitation and enhanced language training before they begin babbling (within 1 year old). Instead of waiting until the child is 2 to 3 years old or even later, when he or she cannot speak or speaks unclearly, we discover that the child has poor hearing. By then, the child's tongue muscles are already stiff and the peak period of language development in the brain has passed. The road for the child to perceive sounds, perceive language, understand and speak normally will be long and arduous.

The second reason is that children have difficulty speaking (functional abnormality) due to poor family language environment. A common situation is that parents are busy with work day and night and entrust their children to the care of the elderly or nannies, and they do not communicate often. The family lacks sufficient emotional and sensory stimulation such as maternal love, or is overly indulgent and restrained. At the same time, the coexistence of southern and northern dialects in the family will cause children to have difficulty in understanding and expressing, affecting language development. Generally, the pronunciation will be clear after individualized speech training and family guidance. Next are children's psychological and behavioral problems, such as autism, stuttering, selective mutism, etc., which need to be diagnosed and treated in a professional hospital, and parents must also cooperate with the treatment.

From the above content, we can see that there are many ways to solve the problem of children's unclear speech. They just need to be carried out comprehensively in the correction process, and it is best to start from several aspects at the same time in order to comprehensively improve the symptoms. In addition, the editor reminds parents not to scold or beat their children, otherwise it may have adverse effects.