A 5-year-old child does not pronounce the letter sh. Teaching a child to say the sound "sh": recommendations and practical tips

This happens in 4 cases out of 10 - the child does not pronounce some letters of the Russian alphabet. How to be in such a situation? This article offers useful information and practical tips for learning the pronunciation of this letter. After all, the sound "sh" is difficult for kids.

Checking the level of pronunciation of the sound "sh"

To begin with, it is worth checking the level of skills of your child: perhaps there is no problem at all. Violations are of two types: when a child pronounces a particular sound poorly and when he replaces it with a completely different one due to a complete inability to pronounce. The latter option in the practice of speech therapists is more common. For example, the baby says "wig" instead of "balloon".

This problem with the sound "sh" is divided into several types:

Sigmatism

Nasal: the baby pronounces the letter a little "in the nose", which can be heard acoustic effect.
Lateral: the letter is pronounced with a squelch.

parasigmatism

Dental: the tongue rests on the teeth and interferes with the natural sound. At the same time, “t” is heard more than “sh”.
Labio-dental: the same, only the deviation can sometimes be associated with a malocclusion in a child. The sound "f" is heard. You should definitely visit an orthodontist.
Whistling: pronunciation of "s" with a whistle when trying to pronounce: "sh".

interdental problem

In this case, the child sticks his tongue between his teeth, and it is not possible to pronounce at all. Together with this, a lisping sound is heard.

Checking pronunciation without the help of a speech therapist

To check the pronunciation of your baby without a speech therapist, follow the scheme: general check, sound check in isolation and in separate syllables with voiced and voiceless consonants.

Start with a general check. Have your toddler try to say a few simple sentences that include words with the "sh" sound. Next, we move on to individual words: hat, scarf, edge, ball, Masha, Sasha, okay, little mouse ...
Did your baby make it? If yes, then this is a very good sign. Next, you should pay attention to the syllables: WUSHU, OSHO, SHA, OSH and so on. This will allow you to accurately determine whether your child is given pronunciation and where adjustment is needed.

Sometimes with this method of checking, problems are found with other hissing consonants. Therefore, take the process with all responsibility and add a variety of sound combinations of sounds.

For testing and training (if needed), you can prepare a set of cards with pictures and sounds: for the baby it will be a pleasant game. Such collections are also easy to find in regular bookstores. In them, all syllables and words are chosen in a special way, with the maximum variety of positions of the necessary sounds.

Possible causes of poor pronunciation

Distortion of speech in communication with a child: he can simply imitate an adult manner of communication.
Incorrect bite: sometimes it goes away with the appearance of molars, and sometimes the help of a children's orthodontist is required.
Too long use of the pacifier during infancy. Hissing and whistling sounds suffer.
Some delay in development.
The baby does not recognize sounds by ear.
hyperactive child. It will take a lot of effort to teach such a child to speak words correctly.

If you have been trying for a long time, but to no avail, to teach your baby to say “sh” correctly, contact a speech therapist. As a rule, many kindergartens hire them for a few hours a week. He will be able to competently deliver a speech in a short time.

Exercises before starting classes

Before starting classes with the baby, be sure to do exercises for the oral cavity. It will consist of several simple exercises.

We put the tongue on the lower lip and hold it in this position for 15 seconds.
We create a cup from our tongue and hold it in this position for 10 seconds. We relax. We are holding again. This is an effective exercise for training the muscles of the tongue.
We lower and raise the "cup". We do the exercise smoothly, do not rush.
We click with the tongue. Slowly, "stretching" the process.

Put the baby in front of the mirror: it will be very fun for him to build faces, and he will try harder. You can also dilute the process with interesting funny stories.

Additional lip warm-up

We pronounce the sounds "o" and "y" alternately with the maximum use of lip gestures. Then we put them in a tube, then we turn them into a large circle.
We alternate the "tube" and a smile. Try to make the smile as wide as possible, and the “tube” narrow.

Exercises for setting the sound "sh"

We practice the following list of exercises for pronunciation:

"Moving Cup" We create a cup with a tongue and begin to move it. Then we raise the edges, then we lower it into the lower part of the mouth.
"Free flight". We make a "cup" and take it out of the mouth. We take a small piece of cotton wool and put it on the baby's nose. When exhaling, the air will be repelled from the wall of the "cup" and rise up, and the fleece will fly away. A very fun and effective lisp prevention exercise.
"Ship at sea". We raise and lower the "cup" with delays of 1 - 3 seconds.

All exercises are performed in front of a mirror and are accompanied by as many funny stories as you can think of.

Each of us learned to speak in childhood. It was easy for some, and someone distorted the letters for a long time, trying to pronounce the right one. Unfortunately, situations where children cannot pronounce certain sounds correctly occur quite often.

For many children, the "sh" sound is one of the most difficult to master. Some kids completely exclude it, and some change to others. For example, instead of the word “bump”, the baby’s parents hear the following:

Fifka. Shows the labio-dental pronunciation of the sound "Sh".
Investigation. The child replaces hissing with hissing sounds.
Khykhka. This case shows a back-lingual way of pronunciation.
Tytka. This is a variant pronunciation.

If you pay special attention to the pronunciation of the baby, then he will quickly learn to pronounce everything necessary, including the sound “Sh”. Then you can do without the help of a speech therapist.

If, after homework, the child is still poorly given the sound “Sh” or any others, then it is still better to examine him with speech therapists. Perhaps the baby has hearing problems or impaired perception. Then professional help is indispensable.

Usually, a speech therapist will conduct a full examination to identify speech problems in a child. But, nevertheless, it is possible to check the baby's speech at home. The check is carried out incrementally: separately syllables, then words, phrases and sentences.

For this, it is necessary that the child repeats the sounds after one of the parents. According to the same scheme, the pronunciation of syllables and other things is checked. To get more accurate information about how a child says, what he pronounces and what he cannot, it is necessary to put "Sh" in various positions: OSHO, WUSHU, SHA, OSH, and so on.

Be sure to remember that difficulties may arise with other hissing or other consonants. If you decide to take on the child's diction, then you need to be prepared for the fact that you may have to correct other sounds as well.

It is best to purchase or make your own special cards with various patterns for verification. This will help to give the process the atmosphere of the game. When choosing words to check, it is necessary that the letter is in different parts of the word. And when choosing sentences, it is desirable that there are words that are difficult to combine.

Causes of Difficulty in Pronunciation

Constant communication will help the child to improve the pronunciation of many sounds.

To date, speech therapists have identified several main causes of problems with correct pronunciation:

The problem with physiology. The baby has too big tongue, malocclusion or high palate.
The pacifier has been used too long. Often because of this, an abnormal bite develops, from which some sounds suffer in the future.
Lisping. Usually children copy the speech of adults. This is how they learn to speak. If you lisp a lot with the baby, this can lead to incorrect pronunciation.
Parental speech defect. Here the problem is similar to the one described in the previous paragraph. Children copy the pronunciation of adults and thus learn to speak incorrectly.
Parental attitude. Sometimes parents want a lot from a child, but at the same time they do not pay due attention to competent articulation.
Mental retardation. If a child has problems with development and learning, then, as a result, speech will also lag behind.
hearing problems. The child is simply hearing impaired. He fails to hear and reproduce the correct sound.

Even if it was possible to diagnose the presence of a problem, then only a specialist will be able to find out its exact cause.

Warm up

Before you start training the sound “Sh”, you must first stretch your lips. For this, the following exercises are suitable:

"Trunk". You need to ask the baby to take turns folding his lips into a wide and narrow tube. In the wide setting of the lips, the same as when pronouncing "O", and in the narrow one - as when pronouncing "U".
"Alternation". The child should alternately fold his lips into a narrow tube, and then into a wide smile. And the wider the smile, the better.
"Astonishment" . The lips are folded, as in the pronunciation of "O".

How to practice speech

To correct speech defects in a child and teach him to pronounce all sounds correctly, use the following exercises:

"Pancake". To perform, you need to stick out the tongue on the lower lip like a pancake in a frying pan and hold for at least ten seconds.
"Cup". First, stick out the tongue, as in the pancake exercise, and then raise the edges of the tongue to make it look like a bowl.
"Chatterbox". It is necessary to stick out the tongue in the “cup” position and lift it up and down.
"Horse". With the help of a clatter of the tongue, it is required to depict the gait of a horse.
"Focus". This exercise is easiest to present in a playful manner. You need to stick out your tongue and put it in a "cup". A piece of cotton wool is placed on the edge of the child's nose. It is required to exhale as sharply as possible so that it flies.

Setting the sound "Sh" at the expense of other sounds

Thanks to the exercise with the phone, the child learns the letters of the alphabet

Sometimes it happens that the child pronounces the rest of the sounds perfectly, and only the letter “Sh” is still not given to him. Then, with the help of other sounds, you can teach how to pronounce "SH" correctly. For example, if a child speaks the sound "T" well. Ask him to hold out "Shhh" for as long as possible. When he manages to pronounce it properly, offer him to hide his tongue a little. Get the right sound. It is advisable to try the exercise on yourself before working with a child.

Usually the sound "P" is formed one of the last. But sometimes it happens that the baby has already managed to form the sound “P”, but “Sh” still doesn’t work. You need to ask the child to whisper distinctly repeat "R". As a result, he will get "Sh". It remains only to develop and consolidate it in speech.

If the baby manages to pronounce "C", then you need to take an ice cream stick or an ordinary teaspoon. You need to ask the child to repeat "C". Then, with the help of a spoon or stick, you need to raise your tongue up. The sound "SH" will appear. Now the child must try to speak for himself. So you need to repeat until the baby learns.

Summary

After you get the baby to calmly pronounce “Sh”, you need to gradually introduce it into the conversation. Use tongue twisters for practice. The more often he encounters a difficult sound, the sooner that sound will cease to be difficult.

If your child has trouble pronouncing "Sh", don't worry too much. Hissing sounds are one of the most difficult sounds and are not given immediately to many. Using the above methods, and with a little effort, the problem can be solved.

Growing up, our children are increasingly replenishing their vocabulary. The need to talk is growing with each passing day. Unfortunately, most kids have problems with the pronunciation of individual sounds. Is it possible to teach a baby to pronounce sounds correctly at home, or will a speech therapist need help to eliminate speech defects?

What causes mispronunciation?

The most common mistake adults make when communicating with their child is imitating his speech. We lisp with a little man, often distorting the words. It turns out that our speech descends to the level of a baby. Instead of talking to young children as best as possible, pronouncing all the sounds and letters clearly, we deliberately make our speech obscure.

Since the child does not hear the correct speech from you, he will not be able to remember and repeat it. Therefore, in order for the baby to learn to speak correctly, your speech must be clear and legible.

The reason for the incorrect reproduction of individual sounds may be a feature of the structure of the speech apparatus

The ligament under the tongue is shorter than it should be, making it difficult for it to move.
Normal speech is hindered by the size of the tongue (too small or, on the contrary, large).
Very thin or, on the contrary, plump lips, which makes their articulation difficult.
Deviations in the structure of the teeth or jaw.
A defect in the hearing aid that does not allow you to hear some sounds, and, therefore, to pronounce them correctly.

Some speech defects can be easily corrected by parents. The baby experiences the main difficulties when pronouncing hissing sounds - Zh, Ch, Sh, Shch, the letters P, as well as Z, G, K, L, S and C.

How to help your child pronounce hissing sounds?

Teaching a baby to pronounce the letters Zh, Ch, Sh, and Sh is a little easier than, for example, the letter R. Most often, children have a problem with the pronunciation of hissing Zh and Sh. At the same time, the sound Ш still does not hurt the ear as much as the incorrectly pronounced Zh .

Usually the problem with hissing occurs due to the fact that the baby is unable to relax the tongue and stretch it so that the edges touch the upper side teeth.

Therefore, the baby must be taught a few simple exercises.

Let's relax the tongue . Put the tongue on the lower teeth, like a pancake, and tap on it with the upper ones, while saying “Ta-ta-ta”. After that, the tongue should lie down relaxed. Then you need to slap it with your upper lip and say "Pa-pa-pa."
Lifting the tip of the tongue up . To complete the task, you need a chewing candy or gum (it will be a good motivation for the baby). It is necessary that he opens his mouth 2-3 cm, spread the tongue over the lower lip, sticking out its tip. Put a piece of candy on it and ask the child to stick it to the sky behind the upper teeth. Make sure that the baby only uses the tongue, and does not use the jaw.
Blowing air through the middle of the tongue . Place a small piece of cotton on the table. Let the baby smile and position the tongue as in the previous task. The task of the baby is to blow off the fleece to the other end of the table without puffing out the cheeks. At the same time, he must pronounce a semblance of the letter F.
Blowing cotton from the nose . The child opens his mouth, lays the tongue so that a groove is formed in the middle of it, and the edges almost converge. We put a piece of cotton wool on the nose, the Kid should take a deep breath in through the nose and exhale sharply through the mouth. At the same time, cotton wool should fly up.
We pronounce the sounds Zh and Sh . Ask the baby to pronounce the syllable SA, the tongue should be behind the teeth at this time. Then you need to move the tongue deeper into the mouth. As we move towards the alveoli, the sound from C turns into Sh. To get the sound Zh, we repeat the exercises, first pronouncing the syllable ZA.
More words with F and W . Remember or come up with rhymes or tongue twisters, where the letters Zh and Sh are often found in words. Repeat them with the baby several times.
Pronounce the letter H . If the baby has an increased tone of the tongue, at first it will be more difficult for him to cope with the exercise. The sound CH consists of TH and SC. First, the tongue should hit the alveoli, pronouncing TH, and then relax, passing the sound SC through the crack. These two sounds, at first slowly and then faster, should merge into one H. After several trainings, the baby will succeed !

Practice your pronunciation with different little rhymes. For example:

There were jackdaws visiting wolf cubs,
There were wolf cubs visiting the jackdaws,
Now the cubs are clamoring like jackdaws,
And like wolf cubs, jackdaws are silent.

Learning to pronounce the letter R

The baby begins to pronounce the letter R well only by the age of 5-6 years. If your baby has not yet reached this age, do not panic ahead of time.

There are usually some problems associated with the letter R.

The little man does not pronounce the growling sound at all , he just falls out of his word. This happens when the letter R is located between vowels. For example, the garage sounds like "ha - already."
The kid replaces the sound P with L, S or Y . It turns out instead of a rose - "vine", red - "red", forty - "soyok".
The kid pronounces the sound R, but not the way it should sound in Russian . It either vibrates, like the English, or grasses, which is typical for the French.

You can correct the shortcomings in the pronunciation of the letter P by doing some exercises. And it is better to perform them while sitting and keeping your back straight. In this case, the child should see himself in the mirror.

So he can track how well he is doing the task.

Sail . The child needs to open his mouth wide, and lift the tip of the tongue by the upper teeth. The lower part of the tongue is slightly bent forward, and the edges are pressed up to the molars. Repeat this 3 times in a row for 10 seconds.
horse . It is necessary to firmly press the tongue to the palate, and then abruptly release it. This will produce a sound reminiscent of the clatter of hooves. Repeat the task at least 10-15 times.
Turkey . Depict an angry turkey with a crumb. The child should throw the tongue out of the mouth, sticking it between the teeth. In this case, you need to pronounce sounds similar to “bl-bl”. The task is performed at a slow pace, gradually accelerating it.
Let's bite the tongue . Stick the end of the tongue out, and stretch the mouth in a smile. Then slowly bite your tongue with your teeth.
We clean our teeth . The baby needs to smile broadly and move the tip of the tongue along the inner wall of the upper teeth, without moving the lower jaw.
Who is longer. Invite the baby to compare who has a longer tongue. Will he be able to reach his chin or the tip of his nose with it.
Woodpecker . You need to open your mouth wide and tap your tongue hard on the inside of the gums near the upper teeth. At this time, you need to say "d-d-d."

So that the child does not get tired of numerous exercises, take breaks by inviting him to roar like a lion. To consolidate the emerging successes, you can additionally learn tongue twisters and words with the baby that contain the letter R.

We pronounce the letters Z, C and C correctly

When a child does not pronounce the letter C, at the same time he cannot pronounce the other whistling letters and syllables - З, Ц, Зб, СЬ. The reason for this is an underdeveloped articulatory apparatus.

Special exercises will also help to correct the situation.

Get the ball into the goal . The purpose of this task is to learn how to release a long directed stream of air. Make a gate out of cubes or other toys on the table. Roll up a loose cotton ball. The kid should, having folded his lips with a tube, blow on the ball and drive it into the gate. When performing the exercise, you can not puff out your cheeks, and the blown air should go in one long stream, without interruptions.
Tongue song . Opening the mouth, it is necessary to place the tongue on the lower lip. Then you need to spank with sponges - "pya-pya-pya" (the tongue sings). At the same time, the air comes out in a smooth stream, without interruption. Then, with your mouth wide open, hold the soft tongue on the lower lip so that it does not tuck. It is necessary that the edges of the tongue touch the corners of the mouth.
pancake . It is important to teach the baby to relax the tongue. To do this, he must smile, put the front edge of the tongue on the lower lip. The smile should not be tense, and the tongue should only hang slightly from the sponge.
We clean our teeth . The exercise is similar to the task for the letter P, only we will clean not the upper, but the lower teeth.

The letter Z is a pair for the letter C, so they are staging it in the same way as the sound C.

The sound Ts consists of two sounds - T and C, which quickly move from one to the other. It is important to teach the baby to separate one sound from another. Ask the baby to say first a long sound “shhh”, and then short “shhh, shhh, shhh”. As a result, the baby will get the sound C.

What about K and G?

The sounds K, G and X are posterior lingual, which implies a high rise of the tongue during their pronunciation. When a child does not pronounce these letters, most often his tongue is simply lazy (with the exception of congenital pathologies that only doctors can correct). To make the tongue work, you need to do exercises.

Rolling down the hill . Place a cotton ball on your baby's palm. The kid should slightly open his mouth, and hold the root of the tongue in an elevated position, and lower its tip. Then you need to quickly exhale so as to blow off the cotton wool from the palm of your hand. Get a K sound.

spoon . Ask your child to slowly say “ta-ta-ta”. Take a teaspoon and carefully move your tongue away by pressing on the front of its back. Instead of “ta”, the crumbs will first get “cha”, and then “kya”. Continuing to put pressure on the tongue, catch the moment when the baby gets a clean “ka”. He needs to remember what position his tongue was in at that moment. Don't worry if it doesn't work right away.

Regardless of which letter pronunciation exercises you do with your baby, repeat with him as many words, rhymes or songs with this letter as possible after class.

Children in the process of forming speech have various problems with many letters. One of the most common difficulties is staging the sound sh. It is usually difficult for children to pronounce hissing sounds for the reason that they cannot relax the tongue and place it in the required shape, which is required by the correct articulation of the sound sh.

The main reason that a child cannot correctly make hissing sounds is the way the parents communicate with the baby. Many adults deliberately copy the speech of the child, speaking to him in a childish way. Thus, the child hears the wrong pronunciation and gets used to just this manner of staging the sound sh. That is why experts strongly recommend that parents speak to their children correctly.

In addition to the parental craving for imitation of baby talk, an important role for staging the sound w is played by some features of the structure of the articulatory apparatus, which include the following points:

the movement of the tongue is limited due to the shortened hyoid ligament;
articulation is affected by the size of the lips (too thin or full) and the size of the tongue (too big or small);
dental anomalies;
disruption of the auditory canal.

In most cases, a violation of the production of sound sh is quite simply corrected at home with regular and careful work with the child. In some cases, babies who have problems with the pronunciation of hissing will be helped by a speech therapist.

Articulation

The key to good pronunciation is the correct articulation of the sound w and w. To teach a child to pronounce the letters w and w correctly, it is necessary to study one method of articulation, since the speech apparatus works almost the same when pronouncing both letters.
So, in order to correctly pronounce the letter sh, it is necessary to work with the articulatory apparatus as follows:

the baby's lips should be slightly pushed forward in the form of a tube;
the tip of the tongue is raised to the sky so that a small gap remains between them;
with the lateral edges, the tongue of the child is pressed against the upper extreme teeth, giving the tongue the shape of a cup;
a stream of air easily passes through the unused vocal cords, creating the necessary sound.

In order to understand how to teach a child to say the letter zh, it is necessary to resort to the articulation described above, while connecting the vibrations of the vocal cords.
Regular exercises for setting sounds are very important. These exercises can be done both with a speech therapist and at home.

Exercises

Specialists have developed special speech therapy exercises for the sound w and w to help kids learn how to pronounce it correctly. This technique includes many different exercises. Below are the most effective and popular in use among speech therapists.

shoulder blade

This exercise for setting the sound sh is aimed at relaxing the tongue. You need to open your mouth and smile. In a relaxed smile, stretch the tongue forward and place the tip in a calm position on the lower lip. The side walls of the anterior part of the tongue gently touch the corners of the mouth.

It is important to maintain this position without tension for a few seconds. This exercise is basic for such a problem as staging hissing sounds, including the letters zh and sh.

Pie

The task "Pie" must be used to strengthen the muscles of the tongue, as well as to develop the mobility of the side walls of the tongue. As in the previous exercise, the mouth is open in a smile, the tongue lies on the lower lip. Without straining the lips, it is necessary to lift the side walls of the tongue so that a depression forms along the central axis of the tongue.

You need to hold this position for 5 to 10 seconds.

Swing

"Swing" is used to make the children's tongue more mobile. The initial position of the articulatory apparatus is as follows: an open and relaxed smile on the lips, the tongue lies wide and flat (do not allow it to become narrow).

Alternately carried out movements of the tongue:

first, to set the sound w, a wide and flat tongue reaches for the ceiling, after which it goes towards the floor;
then the tongue moves first to the upper lip, then to the lower;
it is necessary to climb with the tongue between the upper lip and upper teeth, and also do the same with the lower lip and teeth;
then the tongue touches the upper and lower incisors;
at the end, you need to touch the wide tip of the tongue to the alveoli behind the lower dentition, and then behind the upper one.

The tongue goes through the teeth

This task is useful for setting the sound w in that it develops the baby's ability to control his tongue well. To complete this task, you need to open your mouth and relax smiling lips. With a wide tip of the tongue, touch the lower dentition from the side of the tongue, and then from the side of the lip.

Painter

This task for working out the letters zh and w helps, first of all, to strengthen control over the setting of the language. It also gives the baby a feel for how to guide the tongue to the top of the mouth.

It is necessary to open the mouth in a half smile, relax the lips and fix the lower jaw in one position. Next, imagine that the tip of the tongue is a paint brush, and the sky is the ceiling that needs to be painted. In order to do this, it is necessary to stroke the palate with the tongue from the larynx to the teeth and vice versa, not allowing the tongue to go beyond the mouth.

The above exercises for setting the sounds w and w should be performed regularly. At the same time, parental control over exactly how the baby performs the exercise is very important - it is important to control the correct fixation of the jaw, the position of the lips and the movement of the tongue.

In order to say the sound sh without problems, you need not only articulation, but also automation.

Automation

For the correct pronunciation of complex sounds, staging and automation of sound are equally important. If the production of the sound w has already been carried out with the help of speech therapy exercises, you can proceed to fixing the sound, that is, to automation.

Automation of the sound w is carried out by working out the sound itself, syllables with this sound, and then words, sentences and texts. The production of hissing sounds is of particular benefit from working with pure phrases, rhymes, proverbs, etc.

The letter sh in syllables and words.

scamp, chess, scarf; Rustle, Chocolate, Shorts, Silk, Whisper, Silk; JOKE, NOISE, FUR COAT; Latitude, Bump, Sewing; Six, Shelest, SHEST, etc.

The letter w in syllables and words.

Heat, Pity, TOAD; Zhor, Juggler, Jockey; Acorn, Yellow, Perch; Crane, Beetle, Horror; Belly, Life, Animal; Iron, Wife, Jaundice, etc.

Automation of the sound w with the reading of phrases.

Masha feeds the baby.

In the summer it's good to walk down the street.

Pasha and Dasha gave porridge to the baby.

GLASHA wrote a poem about our BABY.

Our songs about the BOWL with porridge are good.

Speak in a WHISPER: MORE haircuts are sleeping at the swift.

At the window on the couch I lie.

Mishenka, give me a donut and tell me a fairy tale.

Our Natasha is more beautiful than all girls.

Children's rhymes will also help to pronounce the sound w correctly.

A miner came from the mine
With a wicker basket,
And in the basket is a lump of wool.
A miner found a puppy for our Dasha.
Dancing and jumping Dasha on the spot:
“How good! I have a friend!
I'll bake him a pie
I'll sit down to sew him a fur coat and a hat -
My black puppy will be happy.”

The correct operation of the articulatory apparatus and the careful consolidation of the studied sounds are the only true methods of sound production.

In order for a child to understand how to pronounce complex sounds correctly, it is necessary not only to perform special exercises, but also to monitor the correctness of their own speech.

If you regularly work with your child on the production of sounds, then soon it will be possible to forget about the problem of how to teach a child to speak the letter w.

Almost all children who are learning to speak face some difficulty in pronouncing hissing letters. The most difficult of this group are the letters "Ж" and "Ш". In some cases, babies simply skip these sounds, while in others they replace them with the sounds “T” or “C”.

There are several ways to correct such speech disorders in your son or daughter, and for this it is absolutely not necessary to undergo long-term treatment with a speech therapist. In this article, we will tell you how to teach your child to say “F” and “Sh” using simple

How to teach a child to say the letter "Sh" correctly?

Do the following simple exercises with your baby every day:

"Cup". The child should place the tongue on the lower lip, and slightly raise its edges and tip. Thus, a kind of cup should be obtained. After that, you should relax the muscles of the face and repeat the exercise again. It is necessary to do this as quickly as possible and at least 30 times in a row.
"Chatterbox". To perform this exercise, it is also necessary to fold the tongue in the form of a cup and quickly lower and raise it, holding it in this position.
"Pancake". Spread the tongue on the lower lip, hold it for about 10 seconds and put the tongue in your mouth. Repeat this 20 times.
"Horse". Click the tongue, depicting how the horse jumps.

How to teach a child to say the sound "Sh" from other sounds?

It is enough just to teach the baby to pronounce hissing sounds correctly, in particular, "Sh" and "F", if he already confidently says the sound "T". Ask the baby to say "Ssss" and do it for as long as possible. As soon as you hear normal pronunciation, invite the child to hide his tongue behind his teeth. Thus, he will get the sound "sh". You can fix the result if you ask the baby to hiss like a snake as often as possible.

It is extremely rare that a situation arises when a child confidently says a sound but loses the letter “Sh”. Ask the baby to whisper the sound “R”, so he will just get the long-awaited hissing sound.