How do you feel about children not seeing faces during the pandemic? My one year old is staring at my lips when I speak and I feel terrible for my 4 year old who had to endure abuse at daycare with teachers wearing masks. Besides telling the 4 year old to look at my lips, any idea what else I can do to help?
It was horrible and caused a lot of children to be delayed in their speech and language skills. Is your four year old speaking at all? Or just not speaking clearly? He may need speech and language therapy either way. Without seeing or hearing him it would be difficult to assess him There is more to producing sounds than just looking at lips. He has to feel correct placements of sound production. And practice those sounds in isolation then words then in sentences. He still has a chance to catch up since he Is young, though. Correct sound production is still developing in four year olds
My four year old is speaking a ton but she does have a bit of a time with pronunciation especially the beginning of a word. I think I am bring too critical after rereading your response. Your last two sentences is calming for me to read as a parent who took all 4 kids out of society completely in 2020. I need to read more to her and practice sounding words out but homeschooling 4 is tough enough just getting their meals made haha.
He looks awful. I hope he recuperates soon and keeps going.
Not only looks awful but his voice sounds bad too. Has a tremor to it. Almost like a neurologic issue. (PS I was a former Speech Language Path)
He mentioned that his blood disorder made him anemic. So it could be he’s just completely wiped out.
How do you feel about children not seeing faces during the pandemic? My one year old is staring at my lips when I speak and I feel terrible for my 4 year old who had to endure abuse at daycare with teachers wearing masks. Besides telling the 4 year old to look at my lips, any idea what else I can do to help?
It was horrible and caused a lot of children to be delayed in their speech and language skills. Is your four year old speaking at all? Or just not speaking clearly? He may need speech and language therapy either way. Without seeing or hearing him it would be difficult to assess him There is more to producing sounds than just looking at lips. He has to feel correct placements of sound production. And practice those sounds in isolation then words then in sentences. He still has a chance to catch up since he Is young, though. Correct sound production is still developing in four year olds
My four year old is speaking a ton but she does have a bit of a time with pronunciation especially the beginning of a word. I think I am bring too critical after rereading your response. Your last two sentences is calming for me to read as a parent who took all 4 kids out of society completely in 2020. I need to read more to her and practice sounding words out but homeschooling 4 is tough enough just getting their meals made haha.
I have a 6,4,2 and 1 yr old
He sounds geriatric. You're probably right - the tremor is like listening to someone 90yo+ talking slowly so they can find the words.