Question

A two-year-old nine-month-old child can only speak single words and simple two-word phrases, such as ‘I’, ‘fire’, ‘ox’, and two-word phrases like ‘Dad’, ‘Mom’, ‘Grandpa’, ‘Uncle’. They can count from one to ten, understand what adults say, and follow instructions. Although the content they want to express is often unclear, do they have other growth and development issues, such as height and weight development below the average level of their age peers? If so, this may be a relatively mild type of language development delay that can be improved through intensive training.

Answer

Children with language development delays (language disorders) can improve their language skills through the following training methods:

  1. Articulation exercises, combined with games, to make it easier for children to cooperate. For example, practice opening and closing the mouth, sticking out and retracting the tongue, curling and puckering the lips, etc., to lay the foundation for future pronunciation.
  2. Breathing exercises, such as blowing bubbles, blowing out candles, or blowing up balloons.
  3. Picture understanding training, starting with common words and gradually transitioning to sentences. During training, speak slowly to allow children to clearly see the mouth shapes and follow hand gestures, reinforcing the impression through a combination of sound and light.
  4. Guided pronunciation training: Use onomatopoeic words (animal sounds, natural sounds) and words ending in bilabial sounds (such as ‘ba’, ‘pa’, ‘ma’) to guide children to mimic the sounds.
  5. Daily communication training: Often use short sentences to communicate with children and flexibly apply the learned words in daily life. These training methods can be implemented multiple times a day, and children will gradually…