How to correct seseo in children
When children begin to speak, they produce sounds, play with them, test them, form words and phrases, and sometimes substitute words that make sounds for others. This substitution often occurs between the sound S and the sound Z . If the child pronounces the sound S when it should produce the sound
When children begin to speak, they produce sounds, play with them, test them, form words and phrases, and sometimes substitute words that make sounds for others. This substitution often occurs between the sound S and the sound Z. If the child pronounces the sound S when it should produce the sound Z, we say thatSesea .While the children are acquiring the language, it is not necessary to give it more importance, but around 5 years they should
master the sounds in a precise way and, therefore, if this substitution of letters persists, evaluation, evaluation and treatment is recommended. by a specialist .Exercises to correct seseo in children
Do not forget that in several Spanish-speaking regions this substitution is a characteristic of the
regional dialect y l and, therefore, should not be considered a problem. From home we can always help our son to correct his seseo, reinforcing the work done by thespeech therapist
through a series of exercises that we show below: 1- Breathing exercises
: - Make an inspiration through the nose and exhale through the mouth soft and continuous.2-
Breath exercises:
- Exercise a soft and continuous breath. You can use different elements such as candles, straws, pomperas, paper balls, etc. 3-
Lips and tongue exercises:
- Zoom in and out the corners of the lips. - Advance and retract the separated lips.
- Widen and narrow the tip of the tongue
- Remove the flat tongue between the teeth and maintain this position.
- In this position, inhale through the nose and release the air through the mouth gently producing zzzzz
4-
Auditory discrimination exercises:
- Recognize from a list of words that the child is told which ones have the sound Z - Recognize between pairs of words which have the sound z and which the sound s (hunting-house, earthenware-slab, mace-mass, poza-posa, ceta-seta ...)
5-
Specific exercises of sound production Z:
- Repetition of the sound between vowels (aza, azo, azu, ace aci, oza, ozo, ...) Re - Repetition of words with this sound, phrases that contain it, rhymes, songs, stories, onomatopoeias. All these exercises must be carried out with our child in a "fun and relaxed" manner, without putting any pressure on them due to the fact that this sound or someone else does not produce well. With time, work, effort and affection he will learn and
automate the correct sound
.
