How Covid Affected Speech Delayed Children
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Fewer Interactions
More Parent & Screen Time
Assessment and Treatment Delay
Why Do Children Cover Their Ears?
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Sensory Overload
Frustration
Escaping
Preventing
Slowly Escalate, Don’t “Flood”
Why Do Autistic Children Hit People?
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- Unable to Express
- Rigidity & Rituals
- Stress & Feeling Threatened
- Your Relationship with the Child
The 3 Stages of Speech and Language Delayed Children
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Pre-verbal vs non-verbal?
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Learning to learn skills refer to the child’s ability to sit still, concentrate and take commands. It’s essential for a child to have this before teaching language. Make sure your child is ready to learn and isn’t disruptive to whatever you’re trying to teach.
Verbal Imitation is the next essential skill to master. It is the most important prelinguistic skill. And mastering this would help your child use verbal communication.
Single Word Level
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The next thing to do is to combine words. Usually, children at this stage lack verbs. Most words single word levels...
When Will Your Child Speak?
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Quick Language Milestones
When Can You Expect Your Child to Catch Up?
Speech Requires Language Skills
When to Give Screen Time to Children below 4 Years Old
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As little alone screen time as possible
Gadgets can be good (for rewarding)
When is it ok then?
Why You Should Create Routines with Speech Delayed Children
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Language follows context
Teach the meaning of a word
Children are calm when they know what’s going on
Stop Asking “What Do You Want?” to Your Child
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You already know the answer most of the time
It’s annoying to the child
It’s not helping the kid
Autism Treatments and Therapy
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https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fbul0000215
Behavioural approaches focus on teaching skills by setting up discrete opportunities and prompting target responses. Examples include PECS, discrete trial training, and positive behaviour supports.
Developmental approaches focus on supporting social reciprocity and communication during naturalistic parent-child interactions. Examples include DIR/Floortime and Hanen.
Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Interventions (NDBIs) incorporate aspects of both behavioural and developmental approaches. They use behavioural principles to teach developmentally appropriate skills that will support the child’s ability to engage socially with others. Examples include Early Start Denver Model, Enhanced Milieu Teaching, and Pivotal Response Treatment.
TEACCH is a specific classroom-based approach in which the...
ASD Misdiagnoses - This Might Shock You
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False Negatives?
According to a study (link below), “Autism experts” would get 81% of their first impressions (ASD or not) correct after the final diagnosis. That’s quite impressive. 92% of those children the clinicians believed to be on the spectrum went on to get a diagnosis. However, 24% of children initially believed not to be autistic and ended up getting a positive diagnosis.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aur.2536
False Positives?
Professional judgement might be overly pessimistic at times. Parents tell me that paediatricians suspect autism after 5 minutes. And the kindergarten teacher constantly asks parents to get an ASD diagnosis.
Yes, professionals are wrong sometimes. To suspect autism, doesn’t mean there is going to be autism. Think of it as a risk. Just like if you were at risk of a certain disease, of course,...