Verbal and voice associations from six months to a year
By this age a child may be able to associate voices and names with people.
Who is on the wire? Now the child can establish a connection between the voice and the person speaking on the phone. One day, when our eleven-month-old Matthew heard my voice on the phone, he turned and looked at the door. My voice caused him to remember how Papa enters the door.
What is my name? In addition to the fact that the child always reacts to its
name, it can now associate names with people. Sitting at our crowded family table, Matthew, when he was ten months old, always followed the conversation. When I asked, "Where is Bob?" He looked at his brother Bob.
Games and games with new words and gestures
Here are the most beloved children's verbal games that will help you evaluate how well your child understands body language and verbal language.
Wish "good-bye". At the last stage, the child probably could imitate your gestures when you waved goodbye. At this stage, he can even start first. The child learned to associate the words "Good-bye, good-bye" and the accompanying gestures with the departure, for example, with the exit through the door. You repeated the game "Good-bye, good-bye" so often that the child repeats after you when you wave your hand. Now try saying "good-bye, good-bye", leaving your hands still, or wave your hand without saying anything. Once the child has learned the association between sound and gesture, he can wave his hand when he hears your words, or say something resembling "good-bye" when he sees that you are waving his hand. Gestures and sounds cause mental associations that help the child to put them together.
Simulating gestures. Now the child masterfully imitates any movement. His favorite games are games in gestures, involving hands and hands, facial expressions and simple words - for example, "so big";and do not forget about the old, but from that no less remarkable "ladushki."
Hide and Seek. A child of this age is really addicted to hide and seek. Keep a sheet of cardboard in front of your face or hang a headscarf on your head and hold up when you disappear, voice contact, asking: "Where's Mom?" When you take away the cardboard from your face or the baby pulls off your headscarf and you reappear, pay attention to the joyand the laughter of a child. Hide-and-seek conversely is also funny. Put a diaper on the baby's head and say: "Where's the baby?" When the child takes off his veil and appears in front of you, exclaim joyfully: "Here it is!" The game of hide and seek stimulates the development of memory. The child keeps for some time in his memory the image of the disappeared parent, and when you reappear, he feels great delight, making sure that the image that he sees, exactly corresponds to the image that he retained in memory.
More games with the ball. Children love this game, like "Throw the ball and go for it."One-step requests, such as "Bring Daddy Ball!", Are sometimes performed at this stage. Three to four months later, the child will probably consistently fulfill one-step requests and even two-step commands: "Take the ball and throw it to your dad."
"So great!"
Children of this age like to play ball and
can usually perform simple requests,
such as "Give the ball to mom".
Go on!
When playing verbal games such as "good-bye" or "ladushka-ladushki", from time to time, give only half the signal, for example a gesture without a sound or a sound without a gesture, and provide the child with the missing one. For example, say "ladushki" without touching the hands of the child, so that your word caused the reproduction of the child's stored record of what you need to clap your hands. Then necessarily give reinforcements, slamming back. Continue these games for as long as you can, but do not forget that at this age children have very little attention stability, less than one minute. When you feel that your child is really keenly listening to what you say, support his interest.
For example, if you say pointing to a bird in the sky: "Birdie," and see that the child is also looking at the sky and pronouncing sounds remotely resembling the word "bird", acknowledge his success and praise him for being so accurateSimulated this sound, saying with a smile: "Yes, it's a bird!" Thus you lay down what will develop better at the next stage - the ability of a child to make others understand him, and also the ability to feel his words understood. When you play with your baby in language games, pay attention to the fact that sometimes he pauses, as if he thinks whose turn it is. Now the language becomes a more intellectual skill: the child thinks about what you are saying and what he says.
Tips for choosing balls: small children like small, light plastic balls. The ball for table tennis is one of the most favorite toys, as it produces an interesting sound when it jumps on the floor and moves fast, besides the child can easily take it with one hand and easily hold it. Kids also like big foam balls or soft, lightweight rubber balls that they can hold with both hands and throw or roll to you. Some children at this age can start throwing an easy ball over the head.