The child sees asking questions and getting answers as a game and wants to play because he likes it. He enjoys it and is cognitively refreshed at the same time. He wants to hear that you accept the truth of what he knows. Unanswered questions negatively affect development.
When children start saying certain words and letters, they start asking questions one after the other. Sometimes asking the same question over and over until they get the answer causes parents to get bored and not listen to them. However, experts say that children see asking questions and getting answers as a game, and not answering the questions they ask even though they know the answers does not contribute to their language development. Üsküdar University NP Feneryolu Medical Center Language and Speech Therapy Specialist Gözde Malkoç evaluated children's behaviors and parental attitudes that support the language development process:
AN OPPORTUNITY TO THINK
"What's this? Who's this? Mom, where is the car?” and the different questions that follow are very important patterns that nourish language and concept development. The questions asked to the child by adults, the questions the child asks himself, and the questions the child asks his parents to meet his needs are very important in language development. The questions asked by the adult to the child are a valuable opportunity for the child to think.
REACTING IS IMPORTANT
With the child's answers to the questions, language skills and thinking are combined. If the child feels well-intentioned pressure with a soft tone of voice and maintaining eye contact, understands the question and tries to answer it, this gives parents information about their receptive language skills. The answer may not always be verbal, the answer may also be given by simply shaking the head. The mother can repeat the question to get a verbal response. With these repetitions, the child begins to understand question forms and begins to ask questions.
TONE OF VOICE IS ALSO IMPORTANT
The child sees asking questions and getting answers in return as a game. And he wants to play because he loves it. He already knows the answers to the questions he asks, but finding the questions useless or ignoring them just because he knows them does not serve language development. The child enjoys asking questions and at the same time It is cognitively renewed at the same time. He wants to hear that you accept the truth of what he knows. These questions such as "Will my aunt come, will my maternal aunt come?" If the aunt is someone you want, the rest may not come when the answer is positive. Negative answers can be repeated until the child is satisfied with the answer. This style is important in terms of developing the child's abstract thinking and encouraging speech. They want their questions to be answered, so they shape their questions in a way that their parents will understand while asking or before asking. This shaping includes the skills of choosing appropriate concepts and expressing words in the appropriate order and in a certain tone of voice.
QUESTIONS CHANGE AS THEY GROW
Stating that children change the content of their questions as they grow up, Malkoç said, "The 'what' and 'who' questions in the early days change to 'where, why' in later ages." It becomes even more complicated with the questions ', why, when'. The child establishes causal relationships with why questions and because answers. He makes spatial inquiries by asking 'where' questions by imagining an object that is not present in the environment. Begins to understand the concepts of past and future through when questions. Different types of question games are of great importance for the child's cognitive and grammatical development in the preschool period. "If the child does not make an effort to answer the questions, does not attempt to ask questions, or only asks the same type of questions without differentiation, it would be useful to carefully seek expert opinion at this point," he said.
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