At Treetop, our Speech and Language therapists work with a range of speech difficulties that sometimes impact significantly on the children’s intelligibility. Elizabeth Gunner, from SpeechBlogUK, highlighted a few great strategies that both parents and professional can use when communicating with children whose speech is unclear. For example:
- Show them you are listening
- Repeat back
- Show me!
- Offer choices
- Don’t presume
- Encourage gestures
- Don’t correct
You can read the article here.
Treetop Speech and Language therapy, Singapore.