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What Sarah finds hard: Sarah has difficulty understanding what people say and putting words together in well formed sentences. Her language skills are not just delayed for her age. She has a language disorder. This means that her language skills have not developed in the …
Read more [Continue reading] Sarah has disordered language skills at 11 years and 4 months.
What Lucy found hard: Lucy’s speech pronunciation was delayed. This means that she is saying things like a younger child would say e.g. she misses the ends off her word so that when she says fish it sounds like “fi”). Also, when she says “cat” …
What James finds hard: James has a “language disorder.” This means that his language is developing in an unusual way. He is not just doing what we would expect but just a bit later. James also has “a speech sound or pronunciation disorder”. This means …
What Bobby found hard: The person who referred Bobby told us that he was not using as many words as he should for his age. They said he was only using 15 single words and that he did not link words together into little sentences. …
Read more [Continue reading] Bobby only has a few words. He is 2 years old.
What Charlie finds hard: Charlie finds it hard to feed on a bottle. He has sometimes choked. He has reflux. He also has a floppy larynx (voice box). This makes his breathing noisy. Assessing Charlie: The therapist found out about Charlie’s medical history. She talked …
Read more [Continue reading] Charlie has problems feeding from a bottle. He is not quite 1 year old.