What should your child be doing? Check out this chart of narrative development.
Narrative language skills are vital to a person’s ability to not only have successful social relationships but also impact academic work (e.g., written language). Narrative skills are the ability to use language to tell a story. These skills begin to develop at the young age of 2 years! As a child’s narrative language skills develop they will begin to follow rules of storytelling (e.g., sequencing events, including characters, having an event/dialogue/solution, and an ending). Narratives may be fiction or non-fiction.
What should your child be doing? Check out this chart of narrative development. The term “stutter” is terribly outdated and oftentimes negatively viewed, rather I like the term “dysfluent speech.” It is important to remember that we all have moments of dysfluent speech, that doesn’t necessarily mean we all need speech-language therapy to address it. The line that we draw to determine if therapy is recommended is the impact the dysfluent moment have on one’s life, the severity/ frequency/duration of dysfluent moments, and the accompanying tension with the dysfluent moments.
Some of the most common types of dysfluent speech include:
For many children with Dysgraphia, just holding a pencil and organizing letters on a line is extremely challenging. Many struggle with spelling and putting thoughts on paper. It is important that we remember Dysgraphia is not “laziness” or “sloppiness,” using these terms in from of your child with Dysgraphia can negatively impact their self-esteem and increase their anxiety resulting in refusal to write. Many children diagnosed or suspected of having Dyslexia also exhibit symptoms of Dysgraphia. Symptoms of Dysgraphia include:
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AuthorAmy Grant is a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist, Certified Autism Specialist and Clinic Director of Therapy Center of Buda. Family Corner Blog
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