SPEECH AND LANGUAGE

SKILLS

September 14, 2018

Prepared by Maria Florence Gutierrez

 KARA DODDS & ASSOCIATES
Pediatric Therapy Center

Speech Occupational Physical

 TRUE OR FALSE?

aka Infant-directed speech

No research yet that these products produce better

language skills
TRUE OR FALSE?
TRUE OR FALSE?
TRUE OR FALSE?
TRUE OR FALSE?
 WHAT IS SPEECH AND LANGUAGE?

 Speech –making sounds; physical act of talking

 Language- using words to communicate

Comprehension Production
STRATEGIES
 Stimulating Language to your child:
 Slow

 Clear

 Patient

 Motivating
 • Emphasize ONE word Teaching Nouns,
Label • Simple Infotalk Verbs, Adjectives

Identify • Point, Get, Give

• Answer simple
Verbalize questions
• Object/person-object
• Object/person-function
• Object/person-location
Associate • Object-general information
• Cause-effect
 • Emphasize the request (eg.
 Regulating or
Echotalk “drink”, “Pee” or “drink
water”, “eat cookies”) Requesting Wants
• Modeling
 Start with one-word utterance if imitation to speech is still emerging

Obstacle • Imitate first

• Prompt the child: “What do

Prompts you want?” etc.

Expansion • Expand utterances from

one to two and so on
THANK YOU!