What is it?
- It is a developmental issue where the child lags behind the typical speech and language milestones. It impacts child’s ability to produce words and use language to communicate effectively
Key Features
- Child’s speaking skills or expressive language skills may not be age-appropriate
- In some cases both understanding and speaking is affected
- It can be associated with cognitive difficulties, autism or other developmental difficulties
- It is caused due to family or birth issue related factors
Characteristics
- No babbling by the age of 6-9 months
- Reduced use of consonants and only using vowels while babbling
- Limited vocabulary than peers of same age
- Not speaking in 3 words sentences by 3 years of age
- Difficulty combining words into sentences
- Shows frustration due to difficulty in communicating
- Limited social interaction or likes to play alone
Treatment
- Speech language therapist works with children to improve their language skills using play therapy and various techniques.
- Parents are involved in the process to learn strategies which will help in generalising the language skills to different environment
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