Welcome to my 2nd month of the Parent Project!
1. Topic & Discussion — What is speech language pathology/therapy?
I have touched a little bit on this topic in my first blog post.
A speech language pathologist works with people who need help in the following areas:
Articulation/Speech
Language - Receptive, Expressive, and Social/Pragmatic
Fluency/Stuttering
Feeding/Swallowing
Voice
Cognition/Executive Functioning
Hearing/Auditory Processing
The following one quotation is straight from ASHAs website:
“Speech-Language Pathology Service Delivery Areas"
This list of practice areas and the bulleted examples are not comprehensive. Current areas of practice, such as literacy, have continued to evolve, whereas other new areas of practice are emerging. Please refer to theASHA Practice Portal for a more extensive list of practice areas.
Fluency
Stuttering Cluttering
Speech Production
Motor planning and execution Articulation Phonological
Language- Spoken and written language (listening, processing, speaking, reading, writing, pragmatics)
Phonology Morphology Syntax Semantics Pragmatics (language use and social aspects of communication) Prelinguistic communication (e.g., joint attention, intentionality, communicative signaling) Paralinguistic communication (e.g., gestures, signs, body language) Literacy (reading, writing, spelling)
Cognition
Attention Memory Problem solving Executive functioning
Voice
Phonation quality Pitch Loudness Alaryngeal voice
Resonance
Hypernasality Hyponasality Cul-de-sac resonance Forward focus
Feeding and Swallowing
Oral phase Pharyngeal phase Esophageal phase Atypical eating (e.g., food selectivity/refusal, negative physiologic response)
Auditory Habilitation/Rehabilitation
Speech, language, communication, and listening skills impacted by hearing loss, deafness Auditory processing”
What's the speech therapy process?
THE STEPS TO SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPY
Here are some great websites to learn more about speech and language therapy:
https://www.asha.org (this is our national organization)
https://www.superduperinc.com/Handouts/Handout.aspx (I am not a superduperinc sponsor but they have some awesome free handouts on all kinds of information!)
2. The Parent Project — Do one or a few things this month to improve your child’s speech and language skills.
Create, add, or do something simple in your daily life with your child to enhance in one of these areas. Every kid can work on something! Remember— keep it simple!
Here are some ideas:
Articulation
- Say your child has difficulty with “r” sometimes. So, during your nightly prayers or book reading you as the parent over-enunciate the "r" sound in words then, simply ask your child to repeat it. For example: Looking at brown bear book and the parent says, "Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see? You say brrrrown bearrr." Child says, "brown bear." Parent says, "nice job with your sounds! (continue reading) I see a red bird looking at me."
Language
- Reading a book to your child - identifying (pointing) to pictures named by the parent, labeling (naming) the pictures that a parent points to, simply reading the story to the child and asking them "Wh" questions about it. There are so many ways you can work on speech, language, and communication with books!
- Play "I Spy" while driving in the car.
- While grocery shopping - sorting foods in the cart by categories (colors, shapes, food groups).
- Family dinner - go around the table and ask/answer questions about your day.
Any other ideas you would like to share?
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