How to teach a child to pronounce the letter L

Sluggish pronunciation of sounds or light Burr can be easily corrected with modern articulation gymnastics. It helps to develop and improve the muscle tone of the tongue, lips, and improve speech hearing. Articulation exercises will help kids and adults to talk easily, clearly and correctly. It can be carried out in the form of fun games, stories, so that children could learn the correct sounds.

Instruction

1. Introduce the child with the main bodies involved in creating the sounds. This can be done through articulation gymnastics-stories, which will interest the child and quietly will warm-up the lips, cheeks, tongue.
2. Work on speech breathing. Since it happens on the exhale, improper distribution of air during exhalation can distort the pronunciation of sounds. The most well-known game that helps in the development of breath is playing with soap bubbles, blowing imaginary or real candles, blowing boats on the water. So in a fun and relaxed atmosphere, the child learns to control the produced air stream. Make sure he's not inflating the cheeks, and gaining air into the lungs.
3. Do a set of exercises on the correct pronunciation of a sound l in front of the mirror. Slowly at first, if some movement does not work, help your child with a spoon (with the handle). Sit down in front of him so that it is well seen and your movements of the lips, tongue. Do exercises with him. The purpose of all remedial exercises for the l sound – to develop the mobility of the whole language and its parts, adjust the proper air flow.
   • "Horse - everyone knows the sound of Catania hooves. Ask the child to smile, showing the teeth and opening the mouth. In this position, he snaps the tip of his tongue like a horse. Do with him, first slowly, then faster. And make sure that only worked the tongue and the lower jaw remained stationary.
   • "Horse rides quiet is a mandatory variant of the previous exercise. Encourage your child to do the tongue the same, but only without sound, like a horse in intelligence. The rules remain the same – not to stick his tongue and without moving your lower jaw.
   • "The wind is blowing . Smile, mouth open, biting the tip of tongue front teeth and blow. You should have two air jets from the corners of the mouth. To teach the child and control the flow of air with the help of a fluffy piece of fleece.
   • "Delicious jam . Together with the child slightly open mouth and wide front edge of the tongue lick his upper lip, doing the movement by language from top to bottom, but not side to side. Do not move the lower jaw. If the child does not work, test it first to keep relaxed wide language on a lower lip (the tongue needs to stick out and put it on his lower lip, not podrachivaya her teeth). Then offered to raise the tongue and touch the upper lip.
   • "The ship pounding . Invite a child to open a mouth and is long to pronounce the sound "s (like buzzing the ship). Make sure that the tip of language was lowered and was in mouth depth, and the backrest was raised to the sky.
4. At the same time develop fine motor skills of the child, because it stimulates speech development. Play finger games, draw, sculpt with the child.