How do I help children with speech disorders?

How do I help children with speech disorders?

We often take our ability to communicate for granted because it’s relatively easy for most of us to talk to other people and express our needs, thoughts, and emotions. For children with communication and speech disorder, this isn’t obvious or easy. They might not just have a hard time with verbal communications, but can also have trouble understanding and processing nonverbal communications as well.

Speech disorders affect anywhere from 8-9% of the population and can include issues with stuttering, slurred speech, and can also slow down their learning in school.

Young children with communication and speech disorders may not speak at all, or have limited vocabulary for their age. By the time they enter school, they can speak but in a limited and diminished capacity for their age and development. This can lead to them being bullied or can result in them falling behind in speech and language skills.

They will have difficulty engaging peer group conversations and giving them less opportunity to acquire the necessary social skills. If left untreated, further complications will arise by the time they pass their teens and enter adulthood.

Join us for our Professional Certificate in Speech Therapy Assistant programme.

CAE’s Professional Certificate in Speech Therapy Assistant programme will teach you the tools to assist in the assessment, screening and treatment of communication and speech disorders to help affected children and adults gain their independence and improve the quality of their lives.

Speech therapy helps in correcting for:

  • Improving the child’s ability to express their emotions and ideas.
  • Improving the child’s ability to communicate so people can understand them more clearly.
  • Improving the clarity and quality of their speech.

This helps to boost overall confidence, and ensures the child is able to function independently and learning critical social skills from their friends. The ability to communicate opens up a world of new possibilities for children and breaks their isolation from their peer and society.

Call 6533-0031 or register below for a free course preview.

Find out more about how you can help those in need regain their independence and improve the quality of their lives.