Encouraging Consonants

If you lot accept been reading Eleanor’s month-by-month updates (here’s her latest one!) in addition to then you lot know that, much to this Speech-Language Pathologist mama’s dismay, she doesn’t experience similar using many consonant sounds yet!.

I idea I would part what nosotros are doing at dwelling to encourage these sounds!

Whenever she’s gear upwards to brand them…. First, allow me but enjoin that it is inside the gain of normal for my newly-turned 8 calendar month quondam to non survive using many consonant sounds. But since I know, from my professional person experience, that some babies DO brand these sounds already, I’m doing what I tin to encourage them :)

Here are some tips to help encourage those tricky novel consonant sounds:

• Make oculus contact. If you lot are looking at your baby, she volition survive locking eyes alongside you. There is no improve agency to depict her attending to your confront in addition to the movements of your lips in addition to natural language for consonant sounds. There is a argue that many of the early on sounds are real visual (i.e. you lot tin meet the movements needed for them): such equally “m”, “b”, “p”.


• Let her touch, feel, etc. Take wages of the articulation attending betwixt you lot in addition to your piddling one. Make sounds spell she is looking, in addition to allow her to explore your movements.


• Start alongside unmarried syllables such equally “ba”, “puh”, in addition to “muh”. Make these sounds over in addition to over, giving her fourth dimension to intend betwixt presentations. I volition oft meet her piddling natural language or lips moving spell I’m making sounds, equally though she’s trying to larn them. It is the cutest ever!


• Start alongside the real visual sounds such equally “m”, “b”, “p”, “d”, in addition to “t”. That agency she tin scout what you lot are doing in addition to hear the sounds.


• Take turns alongside her when she is making noises in addition to copy her sounds. If she says “uh-buh” enjoin it dorsum to her. She volition figure out that you lot are repeating what she says, in addition to this encourages her to enjoin fifty-fifty more.


• Take wages of a tranquillity surroundings alongside reduced stimuli to play vocally alongside her. She tin concentrate on the sounds that you lot are making in addition to she is making if at that spot are less distractions.


• Use songs, plant nursery rhymes in addition to games to encourage listening. Things such equally the Itsy Bitsy Spider, Pat-A-Cake, in addition to This Little Piggy accept non bad actions in addition to are fantabulous ways to encourage listening, articulation attention, in addition to phonation communication :)


• Teach everybody else how to encourage consonants too! Bombarding her alongside sounds from mommy, daddy, grandma, sister, etc. volition entirely help encourage them more!

Overall, don’t stress about! Keep using all types of phonation communication in addition to linguistic communication – perish on to purpose other sounds, words, in addition to sentences on a regular basis. And accept fun!

Helping my immature adult woman larn in addition to grow is the most rewarding affair I’ve done inwards my life. Enjoy every infinitesimal :)

{xoxo}