Sunday, November 25, 2012

A technological feature that records children's sounds will allow for the betterment of Speech Pathology.



Communication is one of the base structures for our society.
Communication exist in different forms as long as there is some type of 'back and forth' between two or more people. Communication can either be non-verbal or verbal. Language is a type of verbal communication where a set of people have agreed on a language system. Language is developed at a young age. By age 5 most children have a full vocabulary to effectively communicate. Within children developing language there are also language disorders. Disorders that impact language can range from Specific Language Impairment to Autism. As a result most children with language disorders receive Speech Therapy. Speech Therapy is supplied by speech pathologist. With a speech pathologist, the goal is to have intelligible speech. Check out these interviews to see how others view the importance of communication skills at an early age.

Its amazing that others even realize the need for intelligible communication. Speech Pathologist capture the problem of the child and isolate it order to fix it. The processes in order to establish that a child has a speech impediment is very simple. Many test have been created to pinpoint different speech patterns and assess whether that speech skill has been acquired. From the test a child can then be diagnosed with a speech impediment. The length of time it takes to fix the problem relies on the motivation and receptiveness of the child. Although this segment focuses on the child and their speech impediments, it is important to acknowledge that Speech Pathologist also see adults. These settings for adults are usually in hospitals and nursing homes. Adult speech impediments normally are persistent from birth or are acquired after a health problem. A common side affect of a stroke is a speech impediment and there for requires the services of an Speech Pathologist. Speech Pathologist aid in the development of speech for those who did not acquire speech skills or those who lost it due to a traumatic health event.



Many problems exist in assessing the language of a child, so therefor a new product was created.

Experts say that the product will advance the assessments and generalization process of a speech therapy sessions. 
(Include video from expert)

Do any setbacks for this product exist?

The language samples are below but they will not embed into my post. It deletes the words in my post when the audio boo samples are included.

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Language is an important tool for communication.