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- What do I need to know about speech services?
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What do I need to know about speech services?
· Who comes to speech?
Teachers refer students who may need speech services for a speech/language
screening. If a child doesn’t perform well on the screening, he/she is then
evaluated to see if, in fact, there is a speech/language disorder. If the
child meets the state criteria for
speech/language disorders, he is enrolled in therapy with the parent’s
permission.
· What is a speech/language disorder?
A speech/language disorder is a communication disorder such as stuttering,
impaired articulation (inability to say certain sounds correctly), language
impairment (delays in basic readiness vocabulary, concept development, the
use of good sentence structure and grammar, use of appropriate social
language), or a voice impairment that adversely affects a student’s
educational performance.
· When do children go to speech?
Speech is usually two 30-minute sessions per week with groups of no more
than 5 children. Times are planned to avoid missing classroom instruction
time.
· Where do they go to speech?
They come to my room, which is on one of the kindergarten/first grade halls.
· Why do they need to come to speech?
If a child cannot say his sounds correctly, it may interfere with his
communication in the classroom and his development of phonics skills. If a
child has delayed language skills, it may interfere with his emerging
reading and writing skills. Stuttering and voice problems may also interfere
with communication in the classroom.
· What do we do in speech?
We learn about letters, the sounds they represent, and how to say those
sounds. We read stories and retell them in the right order. We answer
questions about the story and describe objects and characters in the story.
We use objects from the story and practice using location words such as in,
on, over, under with them. Sometimes we act the story out and use good
sentences and our speech sound that we are working on. Speech is lots of
fun, but we learn new skills each session.
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