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Speech Delay
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Posted about 1 year ago Anyone have tips on children showing speech delay? About fiveish, but the symptoms have been there since maybe two. It's a nephew, and the subject is touchy and therefore not spoken of. Nevertheless, I'd like to get educated if ever does come up. |
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| Posted about 1 year ago Has the child's hearing been tested? I don't mean a simple test, but one done by an audiologist. That is where I would start. If the hearing is normal you start to look at other things. "What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches." - Karl Menninger |
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| Posted about 1 year ago Have you seen a speech therapist to diagnose or rule out a real speech problem? That may be the first thing to start with. Working with a speech professional may help fix something simple like mouth or tongue movement for certain sounds. |
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| Posted about 1 year ago reidn23 said: As reidn23 has pointed out, there is the possibility that one or more pathologies might come into play in a speech delay. Is the child attempting to speak and failing or not attempting at all? If the child is not attempting to speak at all or only infrequently, a hearing problem is more likely the cause than a tongue movement or mouth shape problem. Children learn speech by hearing it and attempting to imitate what they hear. A hearing problem may delay the attempt to speak or lead the child to produce speech that is not clear or discernible as language. If the child attempts to speak but is unable to make certain sounds, tongue tip sounds like l, d, or t for example, then a speech professional will be able to help. "What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches." - Karl Menninger |
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| Posted about 1 year ago Edward Bear- my husband is a Speech Pathologist. Could you elaborate on your question? What exactly is the child presenting? |
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| Posted about 1 year ago One of my daughters had a speech delay. She was pulled out of class to meet with a speech therapist on a regular basis and made significant progress rather quickly. She is now 21 and won't shut up! haha Here are a few Speech Delay websites: http://kidshealth.org/parent/emotions/behavior/not_talk.html http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/children/parents/special/common/442.html http://www.blankees.com/baby/speech/ http://www.keepkidshealthy.com/welcome/conditions/speechdelay.html http://www.med.umich.edu/1Libr/yourchild/speech.htm http://www.aafp.org/afp/990600ap/3121.html Hope this helps. |
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| Posted about 1 year ago We had a similar situation with a nephew. When the child went into public school, the school raised the flags that the mom needed to get moving with necessary testing to find out what the difficulty was. Not until then could discussions could occur within the family. Children are the living messages we will send into a time we will not see. – John W. Whitehead |
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| Posted about 1 year ago My son receives Speech Therapy twice a week on-campus and it has worked wonders. He is more confident in talking and socializing. Never wait when dealing with speech delays since it can prevent or alleviate some emotional and social issues down the way. A witty woman is a treasure; a witty Beauty is a power.
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| Posted about 1 year ago I had my son in early intervention at 16 months old for speech delay. The earlier the better and if he needs it ,she must help him. My son would go for annual hearing checks up until he was 10 years old. It's nothing to be ashamed of or afraid of. It was my job to help my son. It's her job too!
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| Posted about 1 month ago a good way to start at hom is constan conversation with the child and indirect corection if the child has acces to the words ant the proper use of them he may bloom i used this with my girl and now she corrects me on certin words on the indirect all you do is repeat bact to them what they said but with the proper phonemes some people will stop a child mid sentence to corect the word this is not good this could discourace the child from conversing example wis is my twortal oh this is your turtle ya just keep the conversation going the child doesnt realized you corrected them but they were able to hear the statement properly. |
