Considering the author's speech therapy manuals, you understand that many games for your children can be done independently. To do this, you do not need to have any special talents or skills of the artist. The main thing is to know the principle of working with this material. Pictures for him can be cut from old children's books or magazines, use improvised and junk material.
In the article we will consider examples of making speech therapy aids with our own hands, tell you how to work with such material, what exercises will help children pronounce the correct sounds and learn how to determine their place in the word.
Kindergarten teachers will also benefit from speech therapy games. They can be used in different classes, for example, on the development of speech, when familiarizing yourself with the outside world. You can play a word game with your children on a walk or after a nap. They contribute to the development of correct articulation, the development of a clear pronunciation of sounds in words, phonemic perception, the ability to determine the place of sound in a word, etc.
Breathing exercises
To correct the pronunciation of sounds, speech therapists practice breathing exercises. Exercises allow you to strengthen the air stream, direct the force of air to the right place, increase the duration of blowing. At first, the exercises are performed simply with the lips, without pouting the cheeks. It is necessary to try so that the stream of air hits the tongue. This is necessary when working on hissing and whistling sounds - w, w, w, h, s, s.
Such exercises are designed to increase air ventilation in the lungs, so be sure to ventilate the room or perform them in the fresh air before starting classes. When repeating from deep breathing, the child may feel dizzy, so take breaks between exercises to relax. The duration of breathing exercises should be increased gradually, starting with short exercises.
For such classes, speech therapy aids with their own hands are easy to do. In addition to blowing air through a tube or inflating a balloon, you can make a child a bright toy using a cardboard sleeve from toilet paper, strips of colored paper or satin ribbons. From such materials, you can easily make an octopus with pom-pom eyes. For beauty, paste the tube over with colored paper. When blowing air, strips of paper or tape will develop in the air, which will be very pleasant for the child. You can attach them with a regular clerical stapler.
Sound Chains
It is very difficult for children to distinguish paired sounds (deaf and voiced), for example, s - s or w - g. To facilitate this process, you can make a speech therapy manual with your own hands, as in the photo below. On a large sheet of cardboard are two bunnies of different sizes. One collects words that begin with loud sounds, the other with deaf ones. You can attach the necessary pairs of letters with buttons or make a transparent pocket to insert them there.
Children are given a set of cards with pictures. All items begin on these sounds. The child takes a card in turn and says out loud the name of the depicted item. Having determined the first sound correctly, he searches for the corresponding letter and strung the picture on a string that stretches from it. So you need to distribute all the pictures in chains, laying them next to each other.
Articulation
It is difficult for preschool children to pronounce sounds correctly due to the underdevelopment of the speech apparatus. The muscles are still weak, the tongue does not listen well and does not have the necessary flexibility. If you don’t deal with the baby, everything will end in failure. A child will not be able to correctly say for a long time that in his older preschool age he will cause ridicule from classmates. The articulating apparatus can be trained already from 2 or 3 years of age. This includes the larynx, jaw, lips, and tongue.
There are lots of exercises for developing the muscles of this system. Mom or teacher shows them to the child, and the baby repeats. It is advisable to do them in front of the mirror, so that you can see the location of the lips and the setting of the tongue. When working on certain sounds, you can make speech therapy aids for articulatory gymnastics.
This is an image of the whole face or only the mouth, where the lips are drawn in the correct position when making a sound. Visibility will help the child repeat the movement on their own. It’s easy to draw such a manual, you can use the children's favorite emoticons.
"Fun alphabet"
Such a manual is useful for speech therapy work, and for learning letters. On the sheet of cardboard on top write in large print large and small letters. In our sample, this is "D". Then pick up the pictures with the image of objects for a given sound and stick them on the surface of the card.
You can do the manual together with the children so that the child himself will come up with the words starting with this letter. If you don’t find the necessary picture, you can always use the Internet and print its outlines on a printer. The kid will help her colorize with crayons. Thus make out all the letters of the alphabet. You can do the logopedic game with your own hands not all at once, but as you study this letter. It will be easier for the child to remember her. In the next lesson, you can repeat the previous letter and work out the next one.
Clearance
These manuals are often used by speech therapists and kindergarten teachers to train the correct pronunciation of a particular sound. This special exercise consists of two parts and is a short rhyme. The first line consists of three repetitions of a syllable or two letters - the first vowel, and the second - consonant. This is a speech therapy exercise to develop articulation, automate the pronunciation of sounds. The second part is represented by a rhymed phrase that contains a given syllable or combination of letters.
In order to make it easier for a child to remember pure words and pronounce them faster, one can make a speech therapy game in the form of cards with one's own hands. They can be small in the form of a table, as in the sample in the article, or you can place each clean-cut separately on a large sheet of cardboard. This will be a demonstration material for working in a group. Write the text in block letters below to tell the children the content if anyone forgets it.
Patter tongue twisters
These are great exercises for making speech sounds. They are a small rhythmic text, usually of ridiculous content. Since ancient times, they have been used for fun, as well as to improve the mobility of articulation organs. In addition to speech, tongue twisters improve attention, develop memory.
The sample of speech therapy aids for children presented below allows not only to pronounce a tongue twister, but also develops thinking and visual perception. Such tables can be drawn for each phrase. They are suitable for older preschool children.
Each picture corresponds to one word of tongue twister. The first step in learning a phrase will be to pronounce it clearly at a slow pace. As you memorize, the phrase is pronounced faster and faster. The main thing is to monitor the clarity and intelligibility of the pronunciation of sounds in words. Funny pictures will help children more likely to remember the text, as the visual memory helps them in this. Draw tables schematically. You need to have the talent of an artist to make such a speech therapy manual with your own hands.
"Guess the sound in the word"
The following educational material is intended for children of the senior group of kindergarten. A child, looking at the first picture, must name the letter at which the word begins. Next comes a series of three images of objects. Having spoken their names aloud, the child must determine the presence of this sound in these words.
On the manual under each drawing there is an empty circle where a check mark is put if the given sound is present in the word. This exercise is very useful not only for developing pronunciation, but also for the development of phonemic hearing, attention. Pictures can be drawn independently or cut from old books.
"Listen and choose the right one"
In this speech therapy game, children learn to clearly distinguish by ear sounds in the names of objects depicted in the manual. There are a number of words that differ in only one letter. Children often cannot distinguish them by sound.
These tables, which can easily be done independently, will help the baby to understand the correctness of the choice, listen more carefully to the spoken word, learn it in the figures.
"Sound clock"
The next game is very similar to the previous version. The task is the same. Children should find paired words that differ in only one sound. The manual looks like a clock with hands mounted on a cardboard circle of large size. You can make the game out of plywood, then pasting over with a sheet of colored paper. Pictures of pairs of words are selected, for example, cancer - poppy, meadow - onion, shirt - nut, seagull - shirt, rose - goat, salt - moth, etc.
The child should set the arrows so that they point to a couple of similar words. You can make the manual two-sided by adding pictures and arrows also on the back of the circle.
"Read the Conceived Word"
The task of the child in this game, naming the first letters of the pictures in a row, is to make up the conceived word. This is an interesting game that is easy to make on your own.
In preparation for the production of this manual, you need to act in the opposite direction, that is, first think of a short word, and then pick up pictures that begin with its first letters. It remains only to arrange them on one line in a row. The photo above shows five-letter words. If it’s difficult for a child to master this game the first time, you can come up with shorter words, for example, “wasp”, “cancer”, “nose”.
The article gives samples of speech therapy games and manuals that can be done at home. It is interesting to work with them, but to do it quickly and simply.