METHOD FOR SPEECH STIMULATION IN UNLANGUAGED CHILDREN Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC A61H1/00 A61M21/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: speech stimulation in a child is three-staged. At the first stage, pronouncing involuntary consonants is induced and reinforced in a game situation with the use of an association of an object movement and a gesture to allow the child reproducing them voluntarily. The sound reproduced during the game is accompanied with a gesture associated with the object movement until a strong relationship of the specific sound and the object is formed; the gesture and object motion are supposed to mean the same sound. Thereafter, the child is trained to pronounce the consonants missing in his/her speech by blowing out an air flow, which is blocked by obstructions formed by articulation organs; the consonants are reinforced in the game situation with using the object movement and gesture accompanying the sound pronunciation; the gesture and object motion are supposed to mean the same sound. The second stage involves practicing how to complete the word pronunciation with the use of an effect of an unstressed syllable fixation to a stressed one, and/or unstable music fixation to a stable one, and/or how to complete a rhythmically specified word structure. That is followed by practicing words consisting of two or three open syllables and one closed syllable. The third stage provides practicing pronouncing an expression with the use of a combination of its rhythmic-melodic structure, gestures, pictures and/or objects symbolising the whole word.

EFFECT: method enables accelerating sound induction, voluntary sound pronunciation, increasing the efficiency of training the word pronunciation by the child by applying logopedic approaches.

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