A school-aged child with a history of a speech sound disorder is at a significantly increased risk of reading difficulties. About 25-30% of children with reading difficulties have a history of speech sound disorder in preschool. When assessing the reading skills of a school-aged child with a persistent speech sound disorder (or history), professionals need…
Which words should I choose? How should I target them? How many times should I say them? Are you at home with a 2-3 year old who doesn’t speak or speaks only in single words? Here are five evidence-based suggestions to help encourage your late talker to start talking: 1. Follow your child’s natural interests…
Combining interesting pictures with scripted Blank’s Level 3 and 4 questions, this 22-page resource is designed to be used for a variety of speech and language goals, including understanding of questions, complex sentence formulation, verbal reasoning, and speech sounds at the sentence level, and speech fluency.
We get asked this question a lot. Until very recently – we’ve had four main problems answering it properly: no published studies comparing the two programs head-to-head*; generally lower quality evidence for the Westmead Program (see below); most of the high-quality, published studies about both the Lidcombe Program and the Westmead Program have been carried…
Most kids gesture before they talk. For example, they: point at things they want parents to look at; shake their heads to say “no”; and tilt their hands to their mouth to tell us they want a drink. When assessing potential late talkers, speech pathologists look at the child’s gestures because they can signal imminent…
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