Addressing Speech and Language Development
Learn some key differences between speech and language skills!
Lesson Overview
Lesson 1 Answer Key
What is Speech?
What is Language?
What is Cognition?
Reflection Activities
Recommended Resources
Lesson Overview
Birth - Two Years Typical Development
Red Flags Ages 0-2
Intervention to Support Their Growth Ages 0-2
Reflection Activities
Lesson Overview
Age 3-5 Years Typical Development
Red Flags Ages 3-5
Intervention to Support their Growth Ages 3-5
Reflection Questions
Recommended Resources
Lesson Overview
Age 6-8 Years Typical Development
Red Flags Ages 6-8
Intervention to Support Their Growth Ages 6-8
Reflection Activities
Recommended Resources
Lesson Overview
Review
Seeking Professional Help
Therapy for Your Child
Reflection Activities
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A child’s brain develops exponentially in the first few years of life, and communication is critical to that development. Children need interactions, modeled through eye-contact and facial expression, physical touch, laughter, music, gestures, a listening ear, and words. When given the proper interaction, connections in the brain take place, vocabulary is acquired, speech patterns are developed, and learning occurs. On the contrary, when a child does not receive ample engagement, neural connections fail to be created, or worse yet, are lost, and his/her communication is negatively impacted.
In this Addressing Speech and Language Development, Darcie Hultberg seeks to deepen your understanding of speech and language development as she provides guidelines for identifying typical language skills for children ages birth to eight years old, along with some steps you can take to encourage children's speech and language development.
This course aims to equip parents, teachers, and community leaders with the skills to recognize patterns of speech and language development in children and establish intervention steps to help children develop these skills.
This course is part of the Conversations on Special Needs series.
Understand the meaning of and difference between speech and language skills
Gain an appreciation for the development of speech and language skills over the span of ages birth to eight years old
Learn some tips, techniques and strategies to help elicit growth in the areas of speech and language
Each lesson is designed to take approximately 2-4 hours, depending on how deeply you engage the reflection and discussion questions. Since this is a self-paced course, the time it will take you to complete it will depend on the speed with which you want to progress through the course.
Since this course is designed as a self-paced experience, you will not have any interaction with the professor during the course.
No. The course contains everything you need to successfully complete the course. There are resources recommended at the end of each lesson that you’re free to explore if you wish to pursue further study on the course topics.
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Biola University