Speech Therapy Self-Massage and Development of Expressive Speech in Children Aged 5-7

It is joyful and pleasant to communicate with a child who knows how to listen to the interlocutor, is able to understand their feelings, and has expressive, emotional, and vivid speech. Children are not born with speech communication skills; these... abilities are formed over time in the process of a child's development. The book by well-known speech therapists from St. Petersburg offers a comprehensive system for working with children, aimed at helping the child acquire the skills of competent speech communication.
Games and exercises are related to 30 lexical themes studied in preschool. In games, while reciting poems from memory, and while pronouncing proverbs and individual sentences, the child learns to express various emotions through intonation. Listening to texts, answering questions, and completing other tasks contribute to the development of the child's ability to understand the emotional state of the character or narrator, expand the preschooler's active vocabulary, and develop their auditory-speech memory, attention, and thinking. Plastic etudes and tasks related to transformation (dramatization) help to reveal the child's creative abilities.
To increase children's physical activity, the authors included complexes of self-massage for the face and hands based on original texts. A detailed description of the self-massage technique and illustrations will help adults understand and master the method of work.
The book will be interesting and useful for educators, speech therapists, and caring parents.