Question

When is a child's communication considered delayed?

What are speech disorders and how are they characterized?

What is a language disorder?

How does it affect language development and education?

How does a speech language pathologist help child with communication disorders? Explain.

Answer 1

Speech language problem differ, it could differentiated in two categories

• A child with a language delay might pronounce words well but only be able to put two words together
• A child with a speech delay might use words and phrases to express

Causes of speech disorder:

Oral impairment of children such as cleft lip and cleft palate and short frenulum ( the fold beneath the tongue) can limit the tongue movement for speech production, many of the case speech delay mainly due oral-motor conditions and ear infection also one of the cause for speech delay.

Characterization speech delay:

• Child may have trouble to imitating sounds
• At 2 years of age can only imitate the speech or action and doesn’t produce words or phrases spontaneously
• By 2 years: says only certain sounds repeatedly and can’t use oral language to communicate his her immediate needs
• Uses many words such as thing, there, that, you, know
• Word searching behavior are made obvious
• Delayed response

Speech delay language affect on education:

When a student language that is delayed , the class teacher language is may too advance, child may not able understand grammar vocabulary and formulas, any doubt in class child may not able to ask due to communication delay

Language pathologist:

Language pathologist role is very important in language delay , he will advise words pronunciation practice any phrases or word need break and pronounce and practice and combined pronounce this is the best way controlling speech delay