Treatment: how and why Linguistics matters in the treatment of speech and language impairment by focusing on what is happening in the mind of the child. This, in my experience, gets the fastest results. For your child Clinical linguistics Three questions Being special Keeping a diary of your child learning to talk Linguistic facts What is the best way of looking at them? One human language A uniqueness The child-friendly five Taking cues from children Insights Four clever letters A lost insight from antiquity Sounds and bits of sounds The airstream and other details An inventory of sounds The phonemes The Sound Pattern of English From features to phonemes Possible structures Sounds, syllables, words My linguistics clinic A problem saying S and Z Sometimes known as ‘lisping’ Co-morbidities Different problems, dyslexia, and speech and language disorders all happening together ‘Childhood Apraxia of Speech’ A poverty of definition Patterns in ‘processes’ Some things that go wrong Goalposts The first language? The experience of success Guiding the growth of understanding Literacy problems Learning to read and write Unpicking history The tragedy of English spelling Root and branch reform or adaptation? Evolution 1. Impairment and evolution Cognitions for skills 2. Steps towards a genome Speciations 3. Vulnerability, disorder, treatment Tools from a tool box Questions Some shenanigans? The myth of Pygmalion A question about autism Missing a step or a mis-step? Share this:FacebookLike Loading...
