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This website has a comprehensive list of resources for parents spanning from early identification and intervention to education. The many different links on this website provide parents with developmental guidelines, what is normal and what is not, information on hearing and auditory processing, and how to help children with communication disorders at school and home. There is even a section for children who are acquiring English as their second language.

https://www.readingrockets.org/article/top-10-resources-speech-language-and-hearing

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Discover the importance of early language, listening, and speaking on literacy development. If you suspect that your child or a student is struggling with speech, language, and/or hearing problems, learn more about testing and assessment, accommodations, and additional professional help. You'll also find tips on reading aloud with children who have speech and language problems or who are deaf or hard of hearing.

1. Healthy Hearing
Healthy hearing is critical to a child's speech and language development, communication, learning, and social development. Children who do not hear well are at an increased risk of becoming struggling readers. Here are some signals that may indicate a hearing problem and information about what to do if you suspect your child may be part of the 10-15% of school-aged children experiencing a hearing problem.

2. Activities to Encourage Speech and Language Development
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association offers these age-appropriate ways that parents can engage their young children to help develop speech and language abilities.

3. Early Identification of Speech-Language Delays and Disorders
If your child hasn't started speaking by age one and or you are concerned about their speech and language skills, there may be a concern. Early identification is key. They need to receive treatment before school begins so they won't miss out on essential pre-reading skills. Learn what the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association has to say about early identification, evaluation, and speech-language treatments.

4. How Does Your Child Hear and Talk?
Every child is unique and has an individual rate of development. This simple resource represents, on average, the age by which most children will accomplish skills in hearing, understanding, and talking.

5. Auditory Processing Disorder in Children
Children with auditory processing disorder (APD) often do not recognized the subtle differences between sounds in words because a dysfunction makes it difficult for the brain to interpret the information. The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders presents basic information on symptoms, diagnosis, and current research of APD.

6. Helping Children with Communication Disorders in the Schools
Answers to frequently asked questions on how to help children with communication disorders, particularly in regards to speaking, listening, reading, and writing.

7. Responsiveness to Intervention: New Roles for Speech-Language Pathologists
Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) can play a number of important roles in using RTI to identify children with disabilities and provide needed instruction to struggling students in both general education and special education settings. But these roles will require some fundamental changes in the way SLPs engage in assessment and intervention activities.

8. What's 'Normal' and What's Not: Acquiring English as a Second Language
How can you tell when a student has a language-learning disability and when he or she is merely in the normal process of acquiring a second language? How do we know and what can we do?

9. Reading Together: Tips for Parents of Children with Speech and Language Problems
Children with speech and language problems may have trouble sharing their thoughts with words or gestures. They may also have a hard time saying words clearly and understanding spoken or written language. Reading to your child and having her name objects in a book or read aloud to you can strengthen her speech and language skills.

10. Reading Together: Tips for Parents of Children with Hearing Loss or Deafness
You'll find sharing books together is a great way to bond with your son or daughter and help your child's development at the same time. Give your child a great gift that will last for life — the love of books.

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Top 10 Resources on Speech, Language and Hearing

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Discover the importance of early language, listening, and speaking on literacy development. If you suspect that your child or a student is struggling with speech, language, and/or hearing problems, learn more about testing and assessment, accommodations, and additional professional help.

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This website includes many different teaching strategies to maximize the student's comprehension of educational material. It also includes different strategies based on whether the disability is in language or speech or physical. There is a section for academics and behavior to help the student stay focused and engaged in the classroom. The strategies span from individual intervention to altering classroom behavior and procedures.

https://do2learn.com/disabilities/CharacteristicsAndStrategies/SpeechLanguageImpairment_Strategies.html

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- Reduce classroom noise as much as possible
- Provide frequent verbal clues
- Provide visual cues
- Allow more time for the student to complete activities
- Use a visual reminder of the day's events to help with organization

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Some possible adaptations or accommodations for students include:
- assistive technology
- augmentative or alternative communication (such as sign language or communication boards)
- Decrease rate of speech when teaching or speaking about new ideas
- Check for comprehension
- Pause to give the student time to process

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Students will receive education from a multi-disciplinary team including general education teachers, speech-language pathologists, and special education teachers. Most of these services are provided at public schools allowing SLI students to stay integrated in the public school system. Many students with speech or language impairments will meet with a speech-language pathologist during their school day.

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Identification Procedures and Service Delivery

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Identification Procedures and Service Delivery

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In early childhood, parents will notice a difference or lack in speaking skills in comparison to the language of other children their age. This usually prompts parents to have the child evaluated by a professional. Many times, the first step in evaluation is having a child's hearing checked. This is to ensure the speech impairment is not actually a hearing impairment that is interfering with language development. Some examples of commonly used assessments are the CELF-5, PLS-5 English, Bayley-III, and GFTA-3. These assessments monitor things like articulation of consonant sounds, language development, and communication skills in many contexts.

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1. Unable to follow directions
2. Has an inadequate vocabulary
3. Struggles to understand or convey messages
4. Shows difficulties conversing with others

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1. Makes consistent and age-inappropriate articulation errors
2. Exhibits disfluencies in the flow or rhythm of speech
3. Possesses poor voice quality, such as a distracting pitch
4. Voice is excessively loud or soft

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Educational Resources for Special Needs. Do2Learn. (n.d.). Retrieved October 19, 2021, from https://do2learn.com/disabilities/CharacteristicsAndStrategies/SpeechLanguageImpairment_Strategies.html.

Most common SLP assessment tools. Fusion Web Clinic. (2020, December 4). Retrieved October 19, 2021, from https://fusionwebclinic.com/most-common-slp-assesment-tools/.

Speech and language impairments. Center for Parent Information and Resources. (2015, July). Retrieved October 19, 2021, from https://www.parentcenterhub.org/speechlanguage/.

Speech or language impairments. Project IDEAL. (n.d.). Retrieved October 19, 2021, from http://www.projectidealonline.org/v/speech-language-impairments/.

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My disability is Speech and Language disabilities.
- SLI stands for Speech and Language Impairments and is a frequently used acronym.