"It's clear, we're not understanding anymore, do you understand?"

In a strict meaning, the communication skills are those skills you need in order to use the talked or written language through signs or other ways in order to interact with others. Communication disorders are problems which are referring to developing communication skills.



Describing the communication skills.

The language uses key words, gestures or sounds in order to represent objects or ideas. At the beginning, the children gain the ability to receive communication, meaning the ability to listen and understand what they are hearing. In a next stage they will start experiencing and to express themselves through words or gestures. Talking will begin through repetitive syllables followed then by phrases and sentences. Later, the children will gain skills over the written part of the communication.



There are very wide limits referring to the beginning of the communications on kids, that is why the parents should pay attention to the deviation from average.

The problems related to the talking language is referring to more aspects, including a late acquisition of an own language or a particular type of disability in the talked language. Generally you can make a distinction between a slow gaining of the talked language and language disorders.

Language disorders include to stammer, replacing a sound with another, forgetting a sound or distorting a sound. Also it can be talked about the voice disorders (which can refer to the tone, volume or quality of the voice).

The causes may be related with the hearing, muscular affections, viral affections, mental retardation, drog abuse or palace affections.

One of the base things a child will learn in his first years of life and which will use forever is developing a language and communication skills. Far from what a child is learning in the first months of life, imitating everyone around, he needs different incentives in order to understand and react better through communication.

At the kindergarten, the children are not only learning objects and actions name, but also conversation ways, how to wait their turn in speaking, a few about the sentence structure, about expressions and humor.

For developing these skills, it is important that the little ones to take part, besides the games with other children, to some one on one communication. That is why, it is great that the kindergarten has smaller groups, so that the teacher will have the possibility to handle all of them.

Talk to your child about what he did at the kindergarten to encourage the language and conversation.

The child will discover the joy in reliving experiences from the previous days through their simple stories. Help him remind the games and the beautiful things he is learning every day and you will see that the benefits aren't only coming on the communication part, the child will have an easier way to memorize things as long as he repeats them.



You must be careful to the addressing mode also. Certainly the child will prefer not to be asked straight: "What did you do today at the kindergarten?". Make it all come from itself: start from the things he did at the kindergarten (for example, a drawing he brings home), start asking him questions about the way he drawn, which pencils did he use, which drawings of his colleagues did he love most etc.

If the teacher gave him songs or poems written on papers, try to repeat them together. In this way, all you are doing is helping him in developing the language and the communication skills.