Pls suggest me the ways to improve the clarity of speech in 3-5 yrs old children?

Answer 1

Children all develop the ability to control their lips and tounge well enough to make clear sounds in words, at different ages. It has nothing to do with intelligence or effort on their part (I've had gifted students who also were receiving speech therapy).

At the ages of 3 through 5, we are only really concerned if a person not familiar with the child cannot make out most of what he/she's saying. IF there are only a FEW sounds being regularly missed (especially if they are only "R" or "L"), it is usually recommended to wait with intervention until the child is 8 years old. If these more difficult sounds aren't being made right by the age of 8, that's when some extra help is needed (most kids do master the sounds by then). It has to do with development of the brain's speech control center... all the nerves have to have grown and connected first.

After years of research, speech therapy techniques have been developed to help people with clarity/articulation problems make the right sounds when they talk. It takes months or even years of practice, with a trained therapist helping.

I would strongly suggest that if you are a parent (or know the parents) of a 3 to 5 year old child who mostly cannot be understood by someone not familiar with the child, that you take him/her to a speech therapist for an evaluation.

If you live in the United States, THAT EVALUATION IS FREE, through a law called Child Find. Call your school district's special education central office, and ask to schedule an appointment under Child Find, for a speech-language evaulation. If the therapist does identify a need for help, the THERAPY IS FREE through the public schools.

Don't let the fact that it is through "special education" freak you out. Most people not already dealing with the special education programming only picture severe/profound children when they think of it. In reality, special education programs service 13 different categories of "differences"/needs, and MOST KIDS GETTING SPECIAL ED SUPPORT HAVE NORMAL SMARTS. They just have something interfering with communication and/or learning at their full potential, like a speech problem, or sensory processing issues (like dyslexia), etc.

Most people in the United States aren't aware that public schools provide therapies and community resource support for children with ANY sort of physiological challenge, even for something very mild like a simple speech/articulation need, starting as early as BIRTH. The idea is that early intervention means the child will do better in school later.

http://www.ldonline.org/article/6231

http://ese.sbmc.org/speech_and_language_impaired.htm

http://www.speechdelay.com/

Answer 2

Just keep going over words, have them slow down if they speak too fast, remind them when they begin speaking to speak slowly. If they have trouble with a letter sound, make sure you always say it correctly. Don't sit and make a child say the word over and over if they have mispronounced it, that makes the child upset. Play word games with words that have sounds that are hard for them. hold up cards with pictures of the words, having the child say the word after you. After the child says the word, then repeat it, so the child will hear the correct way to say the word. Also, children this age should have their hearing checked to rule out a hearing problem. If speech doesn't improve, check into visiting a speech therapist for an evaluation.

Answer 3

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