What Exactly is Therapy for Speech Delayed Children?

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Finding setting, cues and prompts that work

Getting rid of those cues and prompts

Move skills to real life (generalization)

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Using Rewards Can be Natural in Child Therapy

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00:49 Children don’t communicate because it’s not rewarding

1:38  There is no incentive to be social

3:17  Reward behaviours that you want to happen over and over

4:46  Better your relationship with your child

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Children Who are Stuck with “I want” Phrases

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  1. The purpose of “I want” is to stop you from asking
  2. No other language function available
  3. Not enough vocabulary, especially verbs
  4. Try sabotaging communication & teaching play routines
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How to Get Children To Repeat After You?

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Stop repeating the same thing over and over

Teach the concept of imitation through gestures

Have a meaning or reward after the imitation

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3 Reasons Why Your Child is Speech Delayed

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Language Poor Environment

Autism Spectrum Disorder

No Particular Reason (Developmental)

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The New and Problematic Child Therapy Trend

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  • Therapy for Delayed Children has Changed
  • Parent-directed and Clinician Coaching
  • Done for You Solutions and ABA
  • No way is the Right Way, Only More Suitable
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Should You Correct Your Child’s Speech?

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Yes - But only if the child has been training those skills with you individually at home. Do not correct a child when the model answer was not practiced before. It creates a lot of stress. Always teach in a controlled environment first. You wouldn’t want have your first ski lesson at a mountain top right?

No - Only provide feedback. This is when you say what your child is supposed to say instead, but do not require him/her to repeat or correct what was just said.

Modelling is better than correcting. If you want to hear your child say in a certain sentence length or structure, then you must be doing more of that yourself.

Create a Stress-Free Environment for Language Learning

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Can You “Cure” Autism?

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Long rant for ASD. I might offend some people here, but it’s worth the risk.

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Does Speaking 2-3 Languages at Home Cause Speech Delay?

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The world is staying Multi-lingual

It’s the Language Acquisition that’s affected, not the language type

Parents cannot code mix, children can.

https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2018_JSLHR-L-17-0186

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Gestalt Language Processing = Autism?

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Learning Language in Chunks or in Units

Wrong Use of Language

Echolalia & Autism Implications?

https://www.theinformedslp.com/review/let-s-give-them-something-to-gestalt-about

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