Communication is the cornerstone of many areas of learning, and problems with communication skills can lead to below-average school performance or problems with school or social situations. You should observe that your child is reading and writing at the appropriate grade level, participating verbally in class, paying attention, and giving clues that show he or she is able to answer teachers' questions at an age-appropriate level.
Sometimes, family members are unaware of how much of a speech problem they have because they are used to hearing their child's speech patterns every day. They don't realize it's important. As children begin primary school, their speech should be understandable to strangers and acquaintances. If you notice that people are constantly asking your child to slow down, ask questions, or repeat a sentence, this may be a sign to you that you have a speech problem.
Look for times when you see your child interacting with friends, participating in peer-related activities, or interacting in the general community. think. These interactions may also be clues to communication development problems. Does your child interact with friends with appropriate verbal communication? Does your child participate in peer activities with the appropriate level of attention, or does he prefer to wander off on his own?
When communication problems are suspected or present, they can sometimes be the result of a single problem - for example, speech disorders such as Stuttering, Articulation and Phonological disorders. It is a problem that can eventually be overcome with therapy.
Articulation disorder: It can be defined as the inability to produce certain types of sounds or the disorder of producing them incorrectly. The most commonly mispronounced sounds are k/s/r/l. For example, saying "tapi" instead of "door" and "yesim" instead of "picture".
According to normal communication milestones, we expect our child to produce all sounds correctly before school and have 100% speech understanding.
There is another type of speech sound disorder. It is a phonological processing disorder.
Children with this type of disorder typically skip some sounds during speech, say other sounds instead, or repeat their speech. He tends to say it without saying it. For example, calling Hasa instead of Hasan, calling pak instead of kap, saying "kipat" once, "tipak" once instead of "kitap" and not being able to produce some sounds.
How early in the child's life are speech disorders diagnosed? and the sooner it can be moved to normal communication milestones, the less impact there will be on academic, social and emotional areas.
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