Consultation for teachers “Breathing exercises as an important stage of a speech therapy lesson”

Card file of breathing exercises for speech therapists

Breathing exercises “Swing”

Target:

strengthen physiological breathing in children.

For a child in a lying position, a light toy is placed on his stomach in the diaphragm area. Inhale and exhale through the nose. An adult pronounces a rhyme:

Swing up

(inhale)
Swing
down

(exhale)
Hold on tight, my friend.
Breathing exercises “Tree in the wind”

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Target:

formation of the respiratory apparatus.

IP: sitting on the floor, legs crossed (options: sitting on your knees or on your heels, legs together). The back is straight. Raise your arms up above your head with an inhalation and lower them down to the floor in front of you with an exhalation, while bending your torso slightly, as if bending a tree.

Breathing exercises “Lumberjack”

Target:

development of smooth, long exhalation.

Stand straight with your feet slightly wider than shoulder-width apart. As you inhale, fold your hands like a hatchet and lift them up. Sharply, as if under the weight of an ax, lower your outstretched arms down as you exhale, tilt your body, allowing your hands to “cut through” the space between your legs. Say "bang." Repeat with your child six to eight times.

Breathing exercises “Angry hedgehog”

Target:

development of smooth, long exhalation.

Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart. Imagine how a hedgehog curls up into a ball when in danger. Bend down as low as possible without lifting your heels from the floor, clasp your chest with your hands, lower your head, exhaling “p-f-f” - the sound made by an angry hedgehog, then “f-r-r” - and this is a satisfied hedgehog. Repeat with your child three to five times.

Breathing exercises “Blow up the balloon”

Target:

train the strength of inhalation and exhalation.

IP: the child is sitting or standing. “Blowing up the balloon” he spreads his arms wide to the sides and inhales deeply, then slowly brings his hands together, bringing his palms together in front of his chest and blows out air - pfft. “The ball has burst” - clap your hands, “the air comes out of the ball” - the child says: “shhh”, stretching out his lips with his proboscis, lowering his hands and settling, like a balloon from which the air has been let out.

Breathing exercises “Leaf fall”

Target:

development of smooth, long inhalation and exhalation.

Cut out various autumn leaves from colored paper and explain to your child what leaf fall is. Invite your child to blow on the leaves so that they fly. Along the way, you can tell which leaves fell from which tree.

Breathing exercises “Geese are flying”

Target:

strengthen physiological breathing in children.

Slow walking. When you inhale, raise your arms to the sides, when you exhale, lower them down, pronouncing a long sound “g-u-u-u”.

Breathing exercises “Fluff”

Target:

formation of the respiratory apparatus.

Tie a light feather to a string. Invite your child to blow on it. It is necessary to ensure that you inhale only through your nose, and exhale through pursed lips.

Breathing exercises “Beetle”

Target:

train the strength of inhalation and exhalation.

IP: the baby stands or sits with his arms crossed over his chest. Spreads his arms to the sides, raises his head - inhale, crosses his arms over his chest, lowers his head - exhale: “ zhu-u-u”

- said the winged beetle, “I’ll sit and buzz.”

Breathing exercises “Cockerel”

Target:

strengthen physiological breathing in children.

IP: standing straight, legs apart, arms down. Raise your arms to the sides (inhale), and then slap them on your thighs (exhale), saying “ku-ka-re-ku.”

Breathing exercises “Crow”

Target:

development of smooth, long exhalation.

IP: the child stands straight, legs slightly apart and arms down. Inhale - spreads your arms wide to the sides, like wings, slowly lowers your arms and exhales, saying “karrr”, stretching the sound [r] as much as possible.

Breathing exercises “Locomotive”

Target:

formation of the respiratory apparatus.

Walking, making alternating movements with your arms and saying: “chuh-chuh-chuh.” At certain intervals you can stop and say “too-too.” Duration – up to 30 seconds.

Breathing exercises “Grow Big”

Target:

development of smooth, long exhalation.

IP: standing straight, feet together. Raise your arms up, stretch well, rise on your toes – inhale, lower your arms down, lower your entire foot – exhale. As you exhale, say “u-h-h-h”! Repeat 4-5 times.

Breathing exercises “Clock”

Target:

strengthen physiological breathing in children.

IP: standing, legs slightly apart, arms lowered. Swinging your straight arms back and forth, say “tick-tock.” Repeat up to 10 times.

Breathing exercises “Porridge is boiling”

Target:

formation of the respiratory apparatus.

IP: sitting, one hand lies on the stomach, the other on the chest. Drawing in your stomach and drawing air into your lungs - inhale, lowering your chest (exhaling air) and sticking out your stomach - exhale. When exhaling, pronounce the sound “f-f-f-f” loudly. Repeat 3-4 times.

Breathing exercises “Balloon”

Target:

strengthen physiological breathing in children.

IP: Lying on the floor, the child puts his hands on his stomach. Taking a slow, deep breath, inflates your stomach, while imagining that a balloon is inflating in your stomach. Holds your breath for 5 seconds. Exhales slowly, the stomach deflates. Holds your breath for 5 seconds. Performed 5 times in a row.

Breathing exercises “Pump”

Target:

strengthen physiological breathing in children.

The baby puts his hands on his belt, squats slightly - inhale, straightens up - exhale. Gradually the squats become lower, the inhalation and exhalation take longer. Repeat 3 – 4 times.

Breathing exercises “Regulator”

Target:

formation of the respiratory apparatus.

Stand straight, feet shoulder-width apart, one arm raised up, the other to the side. Inhale through your nose, then change the position of your hands and, during an extended exhalation, say “r-r-r-r-r.” Repeat 5-6 times.

Breathing exercises “Scissors”

Target:

formation of the respiratory apparatus.

I.p. - Same. Straight arms are extended forward or to the sides at shoulder level, palms facing down. With an inhalation, the left hand rises up, the right hand goes down. Exhale – left hand down, right hand up. After the child has mastered this exercise, you can change it: not the arms move from the shoulder, but only the hands.

Breathing exercises “Snowfall”

Target:

development of smooth, long inhalation and exhalation.

Make snowflakes from paper or cotton wool (loose lumps). Explain to the child what snowfall is and invite the child to blow “snowflakes” from the palm of his hand.

Breathing exercises “Trumpeter”»

Target:

development of smooth, long exhalation.

IP: sitting, hands clenched into a tube, raised up. Exhale slowly while pronouncing the sound “p-f-f-f-f” loudly. Repeat up to 5 times.

Breathing gymnastics “Duel”»

Target:

strengthen physiological breathing in children.

Roll a piece of cotton wool into a ball. Gate - 2 cubes. The child blows on the “ball”, trying to “score a goal” - the cotton wool should be between the cubes. With a little practice, you can conduct competitions with one cotton ball on the principle of playing football.

Breathing exercises “Spring”

Target:

formation of the respiratory apparatus.

IP: lying on your back; legs straight, arms along the body. Raise your legs and bend them at the knees, press them to your chest (exhale). Return to IP (inhale). Repeat 6-8 times.

Breathing exercises “Who will drive the ball further”

Target:

development of smooth, long exhalation.

Sit down at the table with your baby, place two cotton balls in front of you (multi-colored ones are easy to find in supermarkets, and white ones can be made from cotton wool yourself). Blow on the balls as hard as possible, trying to blow them off the table.

Breathing exercises “Blow on a dandelion”

Target:

train the strength of inhalation and exhalation.

IP: the baby is standing or sitting. He takes a deep breath through his nose, then exhales long through his mouth, as if he wants to blow the fluff off a dandelion.

Breathing exercises “Windmill”

Target:

development of smooth, long exhalation.

A child blows on the blades of a spinning toy or a windmill from a sand set.

Breathing exercises “Hippopotamus”

Target:

train the strength of inhalation and exhalation.

IP: lying or sitting. The child places his palm on the diaphragm and breathes deeply. Inhalation and exhalation are done through the nose. The exercise can be performed in a sitting position and accompanied by rhyming:

The hippos sat down and touched their bellies.

Then the tummy rises

(inhale)

Then the tummy drops

(exhalation).

Breathing exercises “Chicken”

Target:

development of a smooth, long inhalation.

IP: the child stands straight, legs slightly apart, arms down, spreads his arms wide to the sides like wings - inhale; as you exhale, bends over, lowering your head and hanging your arms freely, saying: “tah-tah-tah,” while simultaneously patting one’s knees.

Breathing exercises “Soaring butterflies”

Target:

development of smooth, long exhalation.

Cut out butterflies from paper and hang them on threads. Invite the child to blow on the butterfly so that it flies (while making sure that the child makes a long, smooth exhalation).

Breathing exercises “Stork”

Target:

development of smooth, long exhalation.

Standing straight, spread your arms to the sides, and bend one leg forward. Hold the position for a few seconds. Keep your balance. As you exhale, lower your leg and arms, quietly saying “sh-sh-sh-sh.” Repeat with your child six to seven times.

Breathing exercises “In the forest”

Target:

form correct speech breathing.

Imagine that you are lost in a dense forest. After inhaling, say “ay” as you exhale. Change your intonation and volume and turn left and right. Repeat with your child five to six times.

Breathing exercises “Wave”

Target:

train the strength of inhalation and exhalation.

IP: lying on the floor, legs together, hands at your sides. As you inhale, raise your arms above your head, touching the floor, and as you exhale, slowly return to their starting position. Simultaneously with the exhalation, the child says “Vni-i-i-z.” After the child masters this exercise, speaking is canceled.

Breathing exercises “Hamster”

Target:

development of smooth, long exhalation.

Invite your child to walk a few steps (up to 10-15), puffing out his cheeks like a hamster, then lightly slap himself on the cheeks - release the air from his mouth and walk a little more, breathing through his nose.

Breathing exercises “Little Frog”

Target:

form correct speech breathing.

Place your feet together. Imagine how the little frog jumps quickly and sharply, and repeat his jumps: squatting slightly, inhaling, jump forward. When you land, “croak.” Repeat three to four times.

Breathing exercises “Indian War Cry”

Target:

form correct speech breathing.

Invite your child to imitate the Indians' war cry: shout quietly, quickly covering and opening your mouth with your palm. This is a fun element for children that is easy to repeat. An adult can “manage the volume” by alternately indicating “quieter and louder” with his hand.

Breathing exercises “Pearl divers”

Target:

strengthen physiological breathing in children.

It is announced that a beautiful pearl lies on the seabed. Anyone who can hold their breath can get it. The child, in a standing position, takes two calm breaths and two calm exhalations through the nose, and with the third deep breath closes his mouth, pinches his nose with his fingers and squats until he wants to exhale.

Article: Breathing exercises in speech therapy work with children

Training the articulatory organs and the development of speech breathing is perhaps the main point in the structure of speech correction classes for children with sound pronunciation defects. Articulation and breathing exercises play a particularly important role in the correction of such speech disorders as dysarthria

. When working with dysarthric children, the sequence of different types of gymnastics is important. First, general motor gymnastics is performed, followed by breathing, then vocal, and only at the end articulation.

Breathing exercises begin with general breathing exercises. Their goal is to increase breathing volume and normalize its rhythm. The child is taught to breathe with his mouth closed. They train nasal exhalation by telling the child: “Inhale deeply and exhale for a long time through the nose.” Then they practice mouth exhalation, while closing the child’s nostrils. Resistance exercises are used when the speech therapist

puts his hands on the child’s chest, as if preventing him from inhaling for 1-2 seconds. The child is taught to hold his breath, achieving a quick and deep breath and a slow, long exhalation.

When doing breathing exercises, you should not overtire the child. You need to make sure that he does not strain his shoulders, neck, or take vicious poses. All breathing exercises are carried out smoothly, accompanied by counting or music, in a well-ventilated room.

Breathing exercises are performed with children using play techniques.

“Boats” The child is offered a wide container of water, and in it are paper “boats”, which can simply be pieces of paper. The child, slowly inhaling, directs the air stream towards the “ship”, pushing it to the other “shore”.

“Snow and Wind” Small balls—“snow”—are rolled out of small pieces of cotton wool and laid out on the table. The child is asked to blow on the “snow” like a cold winter wind. In this case, the “clumps of snow” should slowly move to the opposite edge of the table.

"Who's hiding?" On an object picture the size of a quarter of a landscape sheet, we glue corrugated paper cut with fringe on one edge. It turns out that the picture is under thin strips of corrugated paper. The child is asked to blow on the paper fringe until it rises and the picture becomes visible.

“Bubbles” This is a game that almost all parents consider pampering and do not allow their children to play it. In fact, it is a breathing exercise and is very easy to use. All you need is a straw and a glass of water. Please note

the child so that the exhalation is long, that is, the bubbles should be long.

“Dudochka” We use all kinds of whistles, children’s musical instruments, and pen caps. We blow on them.

“Focus” This is an exercise with a piece of cotton wool that prepares you for pronouncing the sound [r]. The cotton wool is placed on the tip of the nose. The child is asked to stretch out his tongue, bend its tip up and blow on the cotton wool to blow it off his nose.

“Candle” The child is asked to blow on the flame of a burning candle so as not to blow it out, but only slightly deflect the flame. You need to blow for a long time, carefully, slowly. There is a caution regarding this exercise from Ayurvedic medicine. Namely, blowing on fire is supposedly a manifestation of disrespect for the element of fire, and future deterioration of vision is directly related to this. However, Ayurvedic medicine is not evidence-based, so this warning is addressed only to those who believe in it.

“Trees” The exercise is similar to the exercise “Who is hiding?” Visual material in the form of trees is made of corrugated paper (crown of a tree), onto which it is proposed to blow.

“Warming our hands” The child is asked to control the exhalation with his palms - blow on his palms. We use the same exercise when producing whistling and hissing sounds. The child uses his palm to control the correctness of his pronunciation. If the “breeze” is cold, “winter,” then the sound [s] is pronounced correctly. When pronouncing the sound [w], the “breeze” is warm, “summer”, the palms warm up.