Not exact matches
There, she developed and taught a
language enrichment program for all kindergartners in the district and provided speech and
language therapy for the two special education classes, as well as serving those students
from kindergarten to sixth grade having articulation, fluency, voice, cleft palate, hearing
impairment and
language delays.
Speech and
language delay might stem
from a hearing
impairment or a problem with the larynx, throat, or nasal or oral cavity.
The types of supports and services provided can vary a great deal
from student to student, just as speech -
language impairments do.
«The ideal solution would be to measure their skills in their first
language to gauge whether the issue is
from lack of exposure to English or a general
language impairment, but that isn't feasible given the diversity of home
languages spoken by children in the UK.
Lesaux's research focuses on the reading development and the health and well - being of children who are at risk for learning difficulties, including children
from language - minority and low socioeconomic backgrounds, and children with
language impairments.
«The ideal solution would be to measure their skills in their first
language to gauge whether the issue is
from lack of exposure to English or an underlying
language impairment, but that isn't feasible given the diversity of home
languages spoken by children in the UK.
Working with three - year - old German children, researchers
from the University of Sussex in the UK and Germany's Paderborn University discovered pre-school children with
language impairment learned more new words through repetition.
Students identified with special needs range
from autism, specific learning disability, speech and
language impairment, hearing impaired, visually impaired, developmentally delayed, and other health
impairments.
Evidence that the presence of orthography facilitates oral vocabulary learning in children with specific
language impairment (SLI), children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and typically developing children (controls),
from Ricketts et al. (2015)
In 2011 - 2012, 855 young black men and women attending schools operated by Ferguson - Florissant school district were labeled as being developmentally delayed, emotionally disturbed, suffering
from an intellectual disability (also known as mentally retarded), hampered by a specific learning disability like dyslexia, or suffering
from a speech or
language impairment.
According to the Court, disqualification requires consideration of potential mischief (using the
language from MacDonald Estate) whether misuse of confidential information,
impairment of representation or harm to the administration of justice.
Parents who have hearing or
language impairments or who are experiencing severe mental health concerns (for example, a condition characterized by hallucinations or delusions) may see little to no improvement
from PCIT.
More importantly, the
language abilities of children with Down syndrome have been found to be even more delayed than would be expected
from their overall level of cognitive functioning, indicating a form of specific speech and
language impairment relative to their non-verbal mental age (Buckley 2002; Laws 2003; Niccols 2002; Vicari 2000).
A significant contributor to speech and
language impairment in this population is the high rate of hearing loss (Laws 2014), particularly fluctuating conductive hearing loss
from frequent middle ear infections, which has been observed to affect 93 % of one - year olds, with 68 % still affected at five years (Barr 2011).
Although not all of our clients have a diagnosis, some of the many labels that have benefitted
from our services include: ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorders - Levels 1 and 2, High Functioning Autism, Asperger's Syndrome, learning disabilities, sensory dysregulation, executive dysfunction, twice - exceptional, gifted and talented, social anxiety, socially phobic, expressive - receptive
language issues, specific
language impairment, traumatic brain injury, Tourette's Syndrome, PDD - NOS, Dysgraphia, etc
During the prenatal and infant periods, families have been identified on the basis of socioeconomic risk (parental education, income, age8, 11) and / or other family (e.g. maternal depression) or child (e.g. prematurity and low birth weight12) risks; whereas with preschoolers a greater emphasis has been placed on the presence of child disruptive behaviour, delays in
language / cognitive
impairment and / or more pervasive developmental delays.6 With an increased emphasis on families
from lower socioeconomic strata, who typically face multiple types of adversity (e.g. low parental educational attainment and work skills, poor housing, low social support, dangerous neighbourhoods), many parenting programs have incorporated components that provide support for parents» self - care (e.g. depression, birth - control planning), marital functioning and / or economic self - sufficiency (e.g. improving educational, occupational and housing resources).8, 13,14 This trend to broaden the scope of «parenting» programs mirrors recent findings on early predictors of low - income children's social and emotional skills.