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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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.

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.

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.

Jump ahead with your career in Special Education!

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How does Play Therapy benefit a child?

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Play Therapy is an intervention strategy to help children safely communicate and express their feelings and thoughts naturally in order to deal with trauma, loss, delayed development, and other developmental and social issues. Play therapy is fun, free-flowing, non-directed, and effective.
Play therapy allows people who are experiencing emotional or behavioural issues to open up their emotions in the safe space of the ‘playroom’, where they are allowed to face their thoughts and emotions nonverbally.

Will my child grow out of it?

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Have you ever caught yourself or someone else saying, “Will my child grow out of it?” Many times, adults and educators tend to think that the child may have behaviour issues. The common signs that lead to that conclusion are:

Is there meaning to how children play?

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We don’t often attribute meaning to how children play or even what they decide to play with. They seem to always have their preference for the things that they do. Especially at a younger age, they may not even be able to tell us why specifically they do certain things. Especially in early childhood trauma cases, the child may indeed not talk much at all and instead opt to do their thing in silence.