Ming from Agents of Speech explains that while genetic factors behind speech delay can't change, children can learn coping strategies. For young kids, behavioral tactics build language and social play. Older children benefit from cognitive frameworks to manage performance stress.
It's a very important concept for you to understand that even if we knew the reason, we cannot solve it. There might be some part of the brain that isn't developing the way it should be. It's like firing in a different way. So what? We cannot change the brain structure. Same as like a genetic disorder. What we can do is we can cope. We can use behavioral tactics to cope. Ways that I can teach you about for a child between like 2 to 6 years old, if we're talking about older, we can start using other therapy techniques. Teaching them cognitive rules. Telling them a cognitive level means that we're teaching them something that is above behavior. Teaching them how to think, how to use structures, how to use a framework for them to think about how they should go about the world, which is still coping because most of the time we cannot change the fundamentals. The only thing we can do for speech and language delayed children is to teach them the baseline of their language skill and their social language play. Also teach them how to cope whenever they're too stressed in an environment that they require to perform.
