What I found most critical about speech impaired children is the auditory processing retention. They are unable to reproduce what they they heard and have difficulty in processing. As a result, they appear `deaf', inattentive and sometimes labeled as stupid.
How can you help to stimulate this?
I found through my journey the following helped my son:
1. Sequence story telling
2. Reciting a story from picture story books
3. Reading
A child may be able to read but still faced difficulty in comprehension. He is unable to understand a sequence of story and this is commonly reflected also in speech reproduction. It inter-links.
It's vital to stimulate this processing of the brain in order for the child to progress academically. What good it is if he can read but unable to understand the content of the text. It would be almost like having the same difficulty in understanding what is being said/instructed to him. Maybe that's why some of these children develop bad tantrums as they fail to deliver their wants/needs to us appropriately. And very often our instructions to them are in vain.
Monday, March 16, 2009
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