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Delayed Speech and Language Therapy

What is Speech and Language delays?

A speech and language delay is a type of communication disorder where child may have a speech and language delay if they don’t meet the speech and language developmental milestones for their age. Their speech and language abilities may be developing at a slower rate than most children’s. They may have trouble expressing themselves or understanding others. Their delay may involve a combination of hearing, speech, and cognitive impairments. speech and Language delays are quite common. A language delay can be receptive, expressive, or a combination of both. A receptive language deficit happens when your child has difficulty understanding language. An expressive language disorder happens when your child has difficulty communicating verbally.

Causes of Speech and Language delays

Language delays in children have many possible causes. In some instances, more than one factor contributes to a language delay. Some common causes include the following:

  • Hearing impairment: It’s common for children who have a hearing impairment to have a language impairment as well. If they can’t hear language, learning to communicate can be difficult.
  • Autism: While not all children with autism have language delays, autism frequently affects communication
  • Intellectual disability: A variety of intellectual disabilities can cause language delays. For instance, dyslexia and other learning disabilities lead to language delays in some cases.
  • Several psychosocial issues: These can cause language delays, as well. For example, severe neglect can lead to problems with language development.

Symptoms of Speech and Language delays

  • not babbling by the age of 15 months
  • not talking by the age of 2 years
  • an inability to speak in short sentences by the age of 3 years
  • difficulty following directions
  • poor pronunciation or articulation
  • difficulty putting words together in a sentence
  • leaving words out of a sentence
  • If your child is not showing an indication of communication using sound, or gestures, especially when they need your help

DIAGNOSTIC PROCESS

At Sanwal Rehabilitation House, we follow the below mentioned Procedure:

  • Case History
  • REELS
  • ALD
  • 3D-LAT

Delayed Speech and Language THERAPY

After a thorough Evaluation, based on their Receptive Language Age and Expressive Language Age, we at Sanwal Rehabilitation House setup a Lesson Plan. And provide continuous Speech and Language Therapy to bring them parallel to their biological age. Various Speech Stimulation Activities are done along with Self talk, Parallel Talk etc to provide them proper exposure to achieve the nest milestones.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • What Causes Speech or Language Delays?

    A speech delay might be due to:

    • an oral impairment, like problems with the tongue or palate (the roof of the mouth)
    • a short frenulum (the fold beneath the tongue), which can limit tongue movement

      • Many kids with speech delays have oral–motor problems. These happen when there's a problem in the areas of the brain responsible for speech. This makes it hard to coordinate the lips, tongue, and jaw to make speech sounds. These kids also might have other oral-motor problems, such as feeding problems.

      Hearing problems also can affect speech. So an audiologist should test a child's hearing whenever there's a speech concern. Kids who have trouble hearing may have trouble saying, understanding, imitating, and using language. Ear infections, especially chronic infections, can affect hearing. But as long as there is normal hearing in one ear, speech and language will develop normally.

  • How Are Speech or Language Delays Diagnosed?

    If your child might have a problem, it's important to see a speech-language pathologist (SLP) right away. You can find a speech-language pathologist on your own, or ask your health care provider to refer you to one.

    The SLP (or speech therapist) will check your child's speech and language skills. The pathologist will do standardized tests and look for milestones in speech and language development.

    The SLP also will check:

    • what your child understands (called receptive language)
    • what your child can say (called expressive language)
    • sound development and clarity of speech
    • your child's oral–motor status (how the mouth, tongue, palate, etc., work together for speech as well as eating and swallowing)

      • Based on the test results, the speech-language pathologist might recommend speech therapy for your child.

  • How Does Speech Therapy Help?

    The speech therapist will work with your child to improve speech and language skills, and show you what to do at home to help your child.

  • How Can Parents Help?

    Parents are an important part of helping kids who have a speech or language problem.

    Here are a few ways to encourage speech development at home:

    • Focus on communication. Talk with your baby, sing, and encourage imitation of sounds and gestures.
    • Read to your child. Start reading when your child is a baby. Look for age-appropriate soft or board books or picture books that encourage kids to look while you name the pictures.
    • Use everyday situations. To build on your child's speech and language, talk your way through the day. Name foods at the grocery store, explain what you're doing as you cook a meal or clean a room, and point out objects around the house. Keep things simple, but avoid "baby talk."

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