How Language calls to the child

HOW LANGUAGE CALLS TO THE CHILD
Nerve cells (centers) in the brain enable us to speak. One cell is concerned with the hearing of the speech (sensorial center) and the other with the production of the speech (motor center). The last mentioned center develops more slowly than the sensorial center. Possibly because the sounds heard by the child provoke the movements to re-produce them. Children must hear the sounds of speech before they can repeat them. NB: Speech is produced by a natural mechanism and not by logical reasoning.

From the moment the child is born, he can make preparation for speech, using some organs. The ear (organ of the heard side of language) is a very complex instrument. The central part of the ear is almost like a harp, with strings that can vibrate according to their length. The harp of the ear has sixty four strings that is in the form of a spiral (sea shell). If these strings hear nothing for years they will remain silent. Whenever a noise strikes the resonating membrane in front of the harp, the strings vibrate and our hearing picks up the music of speech. If a child is born on seven months, the ear is already complete. Speech is formed after birth by hearing. When a child hear words, the mechanism kicks in to make the movement to produce the words.

All human beings loves and create music. The human voice is the music and the words are the notes. The sounds of music (speech) are fixed in the unconscious mind. To get fixed in a child’s unconscious mind, is to speak words. For a child it is first the sound, then the syllables then the language, then words and then grammar. Only when children are going to school, then we are interested in what they learn, but we should focus on their successes before school. Even before four months old, babies become aware of lovely music from the human mouth that touches them deeply. After watching movements of lips, children can make syllabic sounds at six months old. Saying pa-pa/ma-ma.

At ten months, the child will make a discovery that when we speak to them fondly, they will realize that the words are spoken to them specifically. So, at the end of their first year, unconsciously, they created speech. At one year, children will still babble, but will start saying words intentionally. Now it is a struggle between the child’s consciousness and the machine (lack of means of expression.)
Children are badly in need of teachers to pronounce the words for them. At home (parents) usually imitate their babbling. Children from birth to two years should have scientific knowledge of the development of language. When a child tries to tell us something in a single word and we do not understand them, they will get frustrated. Disappointment and misunderstandings will stop the child from trying.
At one and a half years, children discover that each thing has its own name. They will be able to single out nouns. At first they use one word to express a thought. Psychologists called that “fusive/porte manteau” words – or “one-word-sentences”.
Children do not only form language at this age, but sense of order as well. His helplessness can cause him anguish and if we understand their language, we can spare them the anguish.
Therefore the urgence of a special kind of school who give special attention to children the age of one to one and a half. Children should live in contact with adults to hear clearly pronounced speech.