Difficulty learning to read and/or write. So make sure you're doing your best to get a super thorough case history! this is a big one! If you know there is a history of speech/learning disorders in the family, that's definitely something to consider when recommending services. Family history of speech difficulties or learning disabilities. even if all those errors are "developmentally appropriate", if there's a bunch of them and they're significantly reducing speech intelligibility, don't wait! It can help you uncover or rule out issues that could be contributing to speech sound errors and help you make necessary referrals to other professionals. are present, making referrals or getting a jump on speech intervention can be hugely beneficial. This also highlights the importance of ALWAYS administering an oral facial exam whenever possible. Underlying structural or functional deficits. Time to treat and remediate that phonological process! #phonologyisnotarticulation Maybe a child has all their "age appropriate" sounds, but they're still deleting final consonants at the age of 3. if a child isn't at least 75% intelligible to unfamiliar listeners by the age of 3 (and 100% by age 4), then it's time to address speech, regardless of what the charts say. There are so many other variables that should be considered in addition to what particular sounds a child has at a particular age. If we base eligibility criteria and/or target selection primarily on arbitrary "cut-off" ages for acquisition of sounds, then we're missing the whole point. 
" Aren't /s/ sound errors still age appropriate for preschoolers?" " When should I start treating kids for /r/ errors?" Some of the most common questions I hear from SLPs sound something like this: "then at what age should we be addressing particular sounds in speech therapy?" But, for a lot of SLPs it still begs the question.
Given all the buzz from that McCleod & Crowe article last year, it should be no secret that we've totally been misinterpreting those articulation norms.
0 kommentar(er)
