Ming @ Agents of SpeechSpeech Therapist at Agents of Speech

How Fast Will Speech Delayed Children Catch Up?

Name: How Fast Will Speech Delayed Children Catch Up?
Uploaded: 2023-05-22T14:00:39+00:00
Duration: 43 s
Channel: Ming @ Agents of Speech
Description: Ming from Agents of Speech breaks down what determines how fast speech-delayed kids catch up: therapy effectiveness and disorder severity. A mild /l/…

22 May 2023 · 1 min

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Ming from Agents of Speech breaks down what determines how fast speech-delayed kids catch up: therapy effectiveness and disorder severity. A mild /l/ sound error might clear up in a month or two with home practice. Severe disorders can take years or a lifetime, with real progress sometimes not until secondary school.

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Often within a month or two if the caregiver practices homework diligently at home.

Possibly not until secondary school or adulthood; some severe cases may be a lifetime journey.

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Whether how fast they will catch up or not. It depends on how the therapy is conducted, if the therapy is working for them or not. And secondly, how severe the child is. If we're talking about a speech sound disorder, that is rendering, making a child unable to speak one word, even two words at a time because it's so difficult, then obviously it will take quite some time. It might be a lifetime journey, like some of my students, that by the time they are in secondary school, adult, they're starting to really be able to articulate words correctly. Okay, we're talking about that long, but it really depends. It might be just a kid who has a problem with L sound. Then obviously they will catch up pretty quickly. I mean, within a month or two, if the mother does the homework at home really diligently, that really takes very little time.