ABSTRACT
According to neurophysiological views, there are no specific dedicated speech centres within the brain. Instead there are intensive neurophysiological networks between speech, language and motor skills, particularly between speech and hand skills. The motor centres for speech, finger, foot and toe movements all partially overlap on the cerebral cortex. Therefore, by activating one area, neighbouring brain regions can also be activated. Daily finger exercises can therefore bring about considerable improvement in oro-motor skills. Spider's web game aims to developing dexterity, hand-eye coordination, visual perception, fine motor skills, consolidating children's names, and sentence formation. Conker transformation aims to developing dexterity, memory function, hand-eye control, fine motor skills, contact with others, gentleness, and sentence formation. Catching leaves aims to hand-eye coordination, developing articulation, memory. Dressing dolls aims to developing fine motor skills, articulation, sentence formation, practising personal pronouns his/her. Shooting buttons game improves articulation of the speech sound B, and finger motor skills.
