What are the stages of your child’s speech & language development?

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If you are unsure about how your child’s speech and language is developing because they may appear to be unresponsive to vocal cues, or seem to be taking longer than their peers to speak in full sentences, the natural reaction may be to think the child might have speech and language delay. This may not always be the case.

Here are some things you need to know

In most instances, children develop along a progressive schedule with generally predictable milestones.

0-5 months:

Responds to sources of sound or voices
Makes cooing noises or displays sounds associated with emotions like laughter.

6-11 months:

Uses gestures
Attempts to repeat words of adults
starts babbling

12-17 months:

Is able to follow simple directions
Attempts to imitate full words
Starts to understand and answer basic questions non-verbally

18-23 months:

Has a vocabulary of up to a dozen words
Can ask for common things by name
Can pronounce vowels properly and starts using other sounds

2-3 years:

Understands and uses “you,” “I,” “me,” and other pronouns
Starts forming multiple words into a phrase or short sentence
Has ability to verbally reply to simply questions

3-4 years:

Speak at a level that strangers should be able to understand
Can express their feelings and thoughts
Able to repeat and convey whole sentences

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What’s stopping you from finding happiness?

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There are good days, there are bad days. Connected together they represent our life path and choices made, leading us to our goals. Having obstacles or unfortunate days from time to time does not mean that we are unhappy, but it begs the question – are we stopping ourselves from happiness, and can it be changed?

It’s easy to misidentify special needs and learning difficulties!

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As parents and educators, we often do our homework on the various disabilities of special needs students. With the best of intentions, we sometimes make personal assessments of our children and students that look correct, but in some circumstances, these impromptu assessments end up incorrect a great deal of time.

What are the challenges of parenting a child with special needs?

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Parenting a child with special needs is challenging. It requires extra effort in time, awareness, and education. These considerations will be quite different from one child to the next because ‘special needs’ is used as an umbrella term to encompass anything from light learning disabilities to more severe behaviour issues. Proper diagnoses ensure parents will be focussing on the right methods and activities for their child.

Do you fear success or failure?

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Fear is a response to danger, pain, and undesirable circumstances. It is a primal, unpleasant emotion meant to protect us from threats of harm. Fear serves its purpose well, but fear also can negatively affect our everyday life. Not only can fear creep into your personal life but it can also adversely affect the success of your career.

Signs of speech delay

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Many parents and educators may see slow language development as something children eventually outgrow but evidence suggests that sometimes they don’t. Children who have delays in language and speech development may be more at risk for learning disabilities and even children who outgrow the initial difficulties sometimes show signs of learning disabilities from age 6 onwards.

Do you feel that life is sometimes unfair?

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We all know someone who is going through rough patches in their lives for a variety of reasons. Perhaps even you are going through such troubles.

Maybe you have lost a loved one, failed at a relationship, lost a job, hit a dead end in your career, or your personal life isn’t going as smoothly as you had hoped. This sense of unfairness that you’ve been dealt the short end of the stick while others have it better is a common view that people entertain when things aren’t going so well for them.

Is Positive psychology effective?

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Since its very creation, human services have focussed on the dysfunction and diseases within people. When a person sees a counsellor or therapist, they talk about their problems, what their symptoms are, and what is wrong.

Is there a secret to finding happy relationships?

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Finding a person you love and want to spend the rest of your life with is difficult. Even when you find that person, love can still be tough work. There are some things you can do to help ensure that the relationship will be happy, healthy and successful.

Deciding who to connect with
Picking the right person is critical, obviously, and that alone can tell a lot about the future of the relationship. It also tells a lot about who you are as well. Look for someone with whom you have things in common. Passion and intensity can remain forever in a relationship, but the true test is having someone that you like being with that has similar values, beliefs, and goals.

Someone that you can connect with
This is another one that may seem obvious but finding someone that excites you will go a long way towards having a long and happy relationship. Passion, intensity, excitement, intimacy, these are parts of the relationship that, while sometimes embarrassing to talk about, are things that are desired by almost everyone. If the person you are interested in have these two main factors, passion and common interests, then that is a good start to a strong and healthy relationship.

Communications, an important and open secret
Direct face-to-face communication is a critical aspect in any relationship, be it a temporary one, or the person you want to stay with forever. You need to communicate openly, honestly, and directly with that other person. Trust will be hard at times, but opening up and telling them when things are good for you, what you want to do more of, or conversely what you do not like, and what you want to stop, will strengthen the relationship, and increase the trust between the two of you.

Happy relationships start from the very beginning, with who you are interested in. Picking the right person to share things with, and have a lot in common with, will be one key feature; being attracted to them will be the other. Finally, you must learn to communicate directly with each other. Being open and honest will help create the stable, happy, healthy relationship you are looking for.

The important secret to finding a happy relationship is in first understanding who you are as a person before you can understand what you are looking for.

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How does a learning disability affect the child?

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After a child is diagnosed with a learning disability, it’s assumed this will greatly affect their ability to learn. In some sense it may be true, but in another, this need not be the case. When diagnosed early enough, the effects of the child’s learning disability can be mitigated with the proper intervention strategies and the right education for both the child, parent, and educator.