More and more immature and unprepared to start school
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- 01 May 2023
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Up to 60 percent of children today have problems in speech and language development
When Biljana Mihailović, a psychologist at the "Jovan Ristić" elementary school, asked the boy what his father's name was during the testing of future champions, he answered: "Paja." When asked what his mother called his father, the boy answered: "Fat." Another boy proudly boasted to her that he was going to be a paleontologist when he grew up and said that he learned to write both Cyrillic and Latin in kindergarten. And when this psychologist asked him if he knew how to tie shoelaces, the future paleontologist shook his head, explaining that his mom puts on his shoes.
Although these situations may seem cute and funny at first glance, Mihailović is right to be serious when she says that year after year the future champions are becoming more immature, less independent and less ready to go to school.
"Children come to the test today who know Latin verbs, but can't eat on their own, or fasten the buttons on a jacket, they don't know the way from school to home, the address where they live, or their mom and dad's phone number." Very few of them know what their parents do. An increasing number of children have problems with pronouncing their voices - sometimes their speech is so inarticulate that even the people around them cannot understand them. When I ask the parents if they have taken them to a speech therapist, they usually say that they have not and explain that their child's speech impediment is of a 'hereditary' character, because an uncle in the family also talked like that," Biljana Mihailović tells Politika.
According to him, the first grade includes children who were left behind because they did not wear eye patches on time, which "exercise" the eye muscles, and children who have problems in speech and language development, because their parents did not take them to the doctor in time. speech therapist. Read More…
