Articulatory Exercises

The first training of the speech apparatus can be started from about 3 months after the birth of the child, simply by correctly pronouncing various sounds. The next stage, the so-called period of babbling, lasts up to 1.5 years. After the child has learned to speak, one can begin articulatory exercises that are necessary for training the muscles of the speech apparatus and their free mobility. To get the maximum effect, the pace of the exercises should be a little slow. Now many methods have been developed for the development of the speech apparatus, which help to cope with different problems.

Articulatory exercises for sound "R"

The most common problem is with the pronunciation of this sound. To assist the child in correctly pronouncing the "P" sound, parents can use some exercises. These sessions will give the language flexibility, mobility and will learn how to correctly pronounce other sounds in the future.

The first stage consists of 3 games, the duration of the entire session is 10 minutes. The invented scenario depends on your imagination , here are examples:

1. "Clinking". Imagine that you are riding a horse, what sounds do you hear? The game consists in repeating the sound that creates the hooves of the horse.
2. "Turkey". Imagine that you are in a bird's yard, reproduce the sound of a turkey "bl-bl-bl." Ask the child to repeat.
3. "Jumping". Your mouth is a house, and the tongue is a naughty ball, it is constantly on the move. To begin with, determine where the floor and ceiling are in your mouth, and then ask the child to jump the tongue, pulling them in turn.

If you notice success, be sure to praise the child if it is difficult for him to continue these games until fully mastered and only then proceed to the second stage. It consists of repeating the previous exercises and adding new ones. Repeat should take no more than 5 minutes, learning new ones up to 7 minutes. For example, the exercise "coachman" Imagine that you are on horseback and you have to stop it, for this you need to say "prr".

Exercises of articulatory gymnastics

To form the correct sound, you need to start classes in 7-8 months. The first workout is just a smile, putting your lips into a tube and licking them, clicking the tongue, and so on. Then you can repeat the sounds that various animals publish. The main thing that the exercises do not tire the child, continue the exercises for 3-5 minutes.

Let's start the exercises:

1. "Cake". Its goal is to learn to keep the language in a wide state without strain. Description: the mouth is slightly open, the tongue lies on the lower lip, try to pronounce the sounds of "five-five-five."
2. "Pancakes". To develop the ability to keep the language in a free state. Description: just try to keep the tongue as long as possible in the previous position.
3. "Glue the candy." To strengthen the muscles of the tongue and improve the ability to lift the tongue up. For exercise, you will need toffee, which must be glued to the sky with the help of the tongue.
4. "Fungus". To stretch the sublingual ligament. Open wide mouth, and glue a wide tongue to the sky.

Articulation exercises for hissing sounds

When the speech device is working correctly, there are no problems with the diction . To activate it, specially designed gymnastics are used to improve articulation. It must be done in front of the mirror, to track the correctness. Exercises:

1. Raise your eyebrows and hold them as long as possible in this position. Close your eyes and quickly open your eyes, smile and pull your lips, in general, learn to control the muscles of the face.
2. We pass to the jaws. When the mouth is in the open position, start moving the jaw, in each position, fix for a few minutes.
3. Now let's work on the language training. Touch to all the places in the sky.
4. Start yawning, at the same time, make the following sounds: AAX, EEC, BLEED, OOX, UUH.
5. Imagine that you are rinsing your throat. Tilt your head and say "rrrrr".
6. Open wide mouth and, straining the lower jaw, press on it with your fist.
7. Blow your cheeks, and then exhale with the sound of "pf".
8. Draw a fish that talks, opening and closing the jaws.

All these exercises will help to develop the articulatory apparatus and the correct pronunciation of all sounds without exception.

Articulatory exercises in verse

To increase the quality of classes, repeat each poem up to 10 times. Do not rush, clearly pronounce each sound:

"Ah, what a pleasure

There is cherry jam! "

"Here is a fungus on a thin stalk -

You put it in the basket! "

"Deftly brushing a fence

Petya and Egor paint "