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What is a common issue children with language difficulties may face when following instructions?
Why might a child with language difficulties appear 'difficult'?
What is a common challenge children with language difficulties may face in their social skills development?
What might be a reason for a child's reluctance to speak?
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What is a characteristic of a child with speech sound production difficulties?
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What is a common issue children with language difficulties may face in their attention and listening skills?
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What is a common behaviour linked to language difficulties in children of all ages?
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Why might a child's speech be difficult to understand?
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What is a common way children with language difficulties may appear to understand spoken language?
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What is a characteristic of a child with attention and listening difficulties?
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Study Notes
Communication Disorders in Children
- Children with communication disorders have trouble communicating with others, which can lead to difficulties in social skills, academic performance, and cognitive functioning.
Definition of Communication Disorders
- A child with a communication disorder may struggle with understanding or making sounds of speech, word choice, word order, or sentence structure.
Functions of Communication
- Communication serves several functions, including: • Narrating • Explaining • Informing • Requesting (manding) • Expressing feelings
Speech and Language
- Speech is the expression of language with sounds or oral production, produced through precise psychological and neuromuscular coordination involving respiration, phonation, and articulation.
- Language is a formalized code used by a group of people to communicate, and is primary arbitrary.
- Speech impairments include stuttering, impaired articulation, and language or voice impairment.
- Language disorders involve problems in one or more of the five components of language and are often classified as expressive or receptive.
Impact on Social Skills and Academic Performance
- Speech and language problems can affect: • Social skills: reluctance to interact with others, exclusion or rejection by peers, difficulty carrying on a conversation, and problems negotiating rules for games • Academic performance: reluctance to contribute to discussions, difficulty organizing ideas, difficulty recognizing phonemes, difficulty producing sounds, and failure to follow directions
Learning Characteristics
- Children with communication disorders may exhibit: • Cognitive functioning difficulties: difficulty organizing information for recall, slow responding, and inattentiveness • Behavioural difficulties: high level of frustration, frequent arguments, and withdrawing from interaction
Teaching Strategies
- Adaptations for students with communication disorders include: • Allowing more time to complete assignments • Providing individualized support • Modifying activities to meet student needs • Using positive reinforcement and peer assistance
Identification of Communication Disorders
- Children with communication disorders may struggle with: • Understanding spoken language • Following instructions • Making sense of what is being said to them • Describing past events in longer sentences
- Poor behaviour can be linked to language difficulties in children of all ages.
- Children with speech sound production difficulties may have problems with intelligibility, reduced sounds, and reluctance to speak.
- Attention and listening difficulties can affect concentration and following adult instructions.
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Teaching social skills to young hearing impaired children and learners with communication disorders to improve their ability to communicate and interact with others.
