Communication Milestones in Early Intervention
Course Outcomes:
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Course intent: To speech language pathologists with the clinical background to understand the clinically relevant issues regarding communication delay so as properly evaluate & implement appropriate therapeutic intervention in the expressive-productive speech domain, as well as management and prevention of dysfunction in the early intervention setting.
Relevance to speech therapy providers: Aforementioned discipline therapists and other early intervention providers treating children between the ages of 0-3 are on the front line of treating children with speech developmental delay, especially when visiting the home in the early intervention setting.
Outcomes:
Provider will be able to: describe communication concepts in speech development of the child entrusted to their care.
Provider will be able to: identify at what age do back of the tongue consonant sounds manifest in the child entrusted to their care.
Provider will be able to: identify the various types of canonical babbling is expected in the child entrusted to their care.
Provider will be able to: describe the child’s expected age to express via word distortion, as well as Semantic roles are expressed in one word speech including agent, object, location, possession, nonexistence and denial.
Provider will be able to: describe a child’s capacity to use jargon well and masterfully in the child entrusted to their care.
Provider will be able to: identify the timelines for developing holophrastic speech and telegraphic speech in the child entrusted to their care.
Provider will be able to: identify the timelines when a child can actively babble using a mix of consonant-vowel combinations as early attempts at communication.
Provider will be able to: identify the timeline for when a child’s speech production in semantic roles are expressed in one word speech including agent, object, location, possession, nonexistence and denial .
Provider will be able to: identify the timeline children use the rules of syntax (i.e., the grammatical rules specifying how words are combined in a sentence.)
Provider will be able to: identify the timeline when language acquisition in toddler’s begins to flourish, with a surge in word production as a function of cortical growth.
Provider will be able to: describe the communication milestones identified at each separate stage of the early intervention child and the therapeutic management to infants and toddlers with developmental delays
Target Audience: Speech Language Pathologists, Speech teachers and Audiologists
Classification Code & Content Area: 1030: Motor Disorders of Speech-Assessment and Intervention - Language Disorder assessment and Intervention Area: Basic Communication Process, Professional
Course Level: various
Prerequisite: pediatric speech therapist provider - whether therapist or assistant - with neurological clinical background, or professional-grade graduate of accredited program in speech language pathology.
Target Audience: Speech Language Pathologists, Speech teachers and Audiologists, OTR, and COTA
Classification Code & Content Area: 1030: Motor Disorders of Speech-Assessment and Intervention - Language Disorder assessment and Intervention Area: Basic Communication Process, Professional
Course Level: various
Prerequisite: pediatric speech therapist provider - whether therapist or assistant - with neurological clinical background, or professional-grade graduate of accredited program in speech language pathology.
