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Speech clarity of an individual requires production of speech sounds without an error. The errors very commonly seen in childhood are omission of sounds, substitution of sounds, distortion and addition of sounds. Poor speech clarity leads to difficulty in understanding what the child is intending to communicate. Speech clarity depends on how well the articulators (tongue, lips, teeth, Jaw, soft palate) move and function.
Speech clarity of an individual requires production of speech sounds without an error. The errors very commonly seen in childhood are omission of sounds, substitution of sounds, distortion and addition of sounds. Poor speech clarity leads to difficulty in understanding what the child is intending to communicate. Speech clarity depends on how well the articulators (tongue, lips, teeth, Jaw, soft palate) move and function. A child’s speech clarity varies with the age as shown in the table below.
Specific Language Impairment is a notable delay in the language development seen in the children who are having absolute normal cognitive development and there is no evidence of any other coexisting conditions. The SLI children will be healthy and able to do everything as their peers. Only thing that will differ in them is that they will have a significant difficulty in talking and also in some cases understanding language. They will have trouble with learning and using language.
High frequency hearing loss is caused when there is a significant loss in the frequencies above 2000Hz. It is caused due to the damage seen in the sensory hearing cells inside the cochlea. It seems to appear in children as well as adults. Irrespective of the age, high frequency hearing loss can degrade the quality of ones life. So it is very essential to get a professional help and the right people who can help your children are called as Audiologists.
Disfluencies exhibited by children during developmental stages of language learning are termed as Normal Non-Fluency. Normal disfluencies occur throughout childhood. This may occur in children between the ages of 1 ½ to 7 years, with a heightened occurrence between 2 ½ and 4 years. Children with normal disfluencies between 18 months and 3 years will exhibit repetitions of sounds, syllables, and words, especially at the beginning of sentences.
Play is one of the most important ways that your child learns about the world. It is a medium for expressing feelings, exploring relationships, describing experiences, disclosing wishes, and self-fulfilment. From playing with adults and children, your child learns how to interact and get along with others. Also helps child’s problem-solving skills. By experimenting with toys, he will make interesting discoveries. . It is easy to see that play skills and communication skills develop hand in hand.
Eye contact is the act of looking at each other’s eyes that provides important social and emotional information while communicating with each other.
When you talk to your child make sure you are in a physical position where the eyes of yours and your child’s meet together; i.e., look at each one’s eyes and be at your child’s physical level. If he/she is sitting on the floor you may lie on the floor. If your child is sitting at a table you may sit on a low chair or sit on the floor to match his eye level.
Language stimulation plays a major role in communication, i.e., speech and language development in a child’s life. It is a set of interaction strategies used in various contexts with younger children in order to improve their receptive and expressive vocabulary.
Language stimulation is found to be helpful not only for the older children who already have an amount of verbal utterances, but also for toddlers (early language users) who already use language to communicate, in many ways.
It is a form of early social and communicative behaviour. "Joint attention" which is also known as “shared attention” occurs when two people focus on the same thing or in other words when one person purposefully coordinates his/ her focus of attention with that of another person. Joint attention involves two people paying attention to the same thing, intentionally and for social reasons.
Speech and language are some of the most powerful tools that we use to navigate and interact with our world. Watching children develop these skills as they grow, can be so exciting and rewarding. Have you ever thought of this topic? It seems to be an interesting topic to discuss.