To complicate things further, young children who suffer brain damage in the left hemisphere often
develop language normally, with the right hemisphere picking up the slack.
Not exact matches
As a parent, it is often difficult to discern when
language skills are
developing normally and when a child might need some outside help.
That's because sucking on a pacifier locks a child's mouth in an unnatural position, making it more difficult for him to
develop his tongue and lip muscles
normally, says Patricia Hamaguchi, a speech -
language pathologist from Cupertino, California, and author of Childhood, Speech,
Language, and Listening Problems: What Every Parent Should Know.
Another approach is to pair a child with SLI with a classmate whose
language is
developing normally and can serve as a role model.
DR ANDREW WAKEFIELD: Well this work started just over a year ago when we were contacted by a group of mothers who complained that their children had been
developing perfectly
normally until they had encountered an environmental insult, in many cases they claimed it was the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, and then had lost their... all their acquired skills, such as speech,
language, developmental milestones.