“Home” speech therapy sound [w]
To teach your child to pronounce [w] correctly at home, you need to learn several basic methods of production:
- mechanical;
- from a similar-sounding sound.
Mechanical setting
With this method, the baby does not need to independently search for the correct position of the sound - an adult does this for him, using special speech therapy tools (spatula, probe). If you need to put your hand into a preschooler’s mouth, it must be clean.
Staging through sound [r]
How to learn to say the letter Ш through the sound [r]? It would seem that incorrect pronunciation of [r] is the most complex and most common speech defect. However, many children know how to pronounce [r] correctly, but do not understand at all how to position the tongue in the mouth in order to whistle and hiss correctly. For this reason, the sound should be produced through a solid [r], and not adjacent sibilants.
The preschooler should sit in front of the mirror and pronounce [r], gradually weakening the air pressure. The sound should be pronounced until the vibration completely disappears. After this, a slight hiss will be heard and [w] will sound without the auxiliary [r].
Speech therapy exercises on pronunciation of the sound [sh]
To consolidate the placed [w] in the baby’s speech, it is necessary to speak as much as possible with a separate sound - hiss during the game. For this, the preschooler is offered various exercises:
- move the snake along the path, and hiss at the same time;
- “finish” a word, for example - small ..(sh), karanda ..(sh), etc.
Plan for the final lesson on speech development in the middle group
Sibilants in a child's speech
Hissing ones include - [w], [zh], [h`], [sch`]. The formation of their correct pronunciation occurs between the third and fifth years of the baby’s life.
Incorrect pronunciation of “Sh”: types, reasons
Distortion or complete absence of sibilants in a child’s speech is called sigmatism. Depending on the type of incorrect placement, there are 4 types of sigmatism:
- Parasigmatism is a stable replacement of [sh] with another sound. Labial-dental - dental - replacement of [w] with [f]. Prizubny - replacing [w] with [t]. Hissing - replacing [w] with [sch]. Whistling - replacing [w] with [s] or [z]. Occurs with malocclusion or impaired phonemic hearing. Example: hat - slipper.
- Interdental sigmatism is the same “lisping” sound. Occurs due to a shortened frenulum or narrow soft palate.
Lesson with a specialist
- Lateral sigmatism - the sound [w] does not sound firm, as it should, but squelching, as if the baby had taken water into his mouth. Observed due to lateral open bite or weak tongue muscles.
- Nasal sigmatism - in a preschooler, the back of the tongue becomes very tense, and [w] can be pronounced with a nasal “echo.”
Before figuring out how to teach a child to pronounce the letter w, you should understand the reasons for the violation. Often a routine visit to the orthodontist, during which the bite or upper palate is corrected, ends with the long-awaited “hissing” of the baby. Otherwise, there is a need to develop the correct articulation pattern in speech therapy classes.
Articulation gymnastics for staging hissing
Before requiring the baby to pronounce a hissing sound, it is necessary to carry out preparatory articulatory gymnastics. Its duration is no more than 10 minutes. Despite the fast pace (so that the preschooler does not get bored), the child must perform each exercise carefully, since gymnastics directly determines how quickly a child can learn to say the sound [w].
Main tasks in articulatory gymnastics:
- Fence - a wide smile with teeth.
- Tube - the lips are gathered into a tube, there is a small gap between the lips.
- Alternating fence - tube.
- Hippopotamus - open your mouth wide and hold it for a while.
- Spatula - place a wide, outstretched tongue on the lower lip. You can “bite” with your tongue to make it wider.
- Homemade jam: lick the upper and then the lower lip with the tip of your tongue.
- Brush - move the tip of your tongue across the soft palate - from the throat to the teeth and back.
Tasks to determine the position of a sound in a word
At the beginning of the lesson, you can also develop phonemic awareness - determine the position of a sound in a word. To do this, you will need rich verbal and subject material.
- The child is asked to clap if he hears the “snake song (sound [sh]).” In this case, words are pronounced that contain the desired sound or do not contain them. You should not pronounce words with other hissing or mixed whistling sounds.
- The child is given a small sign with 3 windows indicating the beginning, middle and end of the word. And also a chip (cube/drawn sound). The teacher says the condition: “I will name the word, and you put the chip where the sound [w] is located.”
Frontal speech therapy lesson in the preparatory group
Gymnastics for clear pronunciation
To correctly pronounce hissing sounds, speech therapy uses articulation and breathing exercises in combination. In this case, you should definitely remember about the correct position of the organs of articulation: lips and tongue.
Additional Information! Breathing exercises are aimed at developing smooth exhalation. To teach your child to perform breathing exercises, you need to create bright and interesting didactic material. For example, a flower with a butterfly sitting on it, which, according to the terms of the task, needs to be blown away.
Methodological basics for parents
It is important to know the correct position of the tongue and lips when pronouncing a sound in order to work on the exercises at home.
- Lips in the “tube” position;
- The tongue is wide, the tip is raised upward;
- The lateral parts of the tongue are in contact with the teeth of the upper jaw;
- A small gap forms between the palate and the tongue in the area of the upper incisors.
