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1) Prevention: to hinder the occurrence of a communication disorder or delay by providing Early Intervention (EI) services to at-risk children and their families. before an official diagnosis of a communication disorder is made. 2) Remediation: to provide EI services to children and their families who have already been diagnosed with a communication disorder or delay to decrease the long term occurrence or adverse impact that the communication disorder could possibly have on children later in life. 3)Compensation: to provide effective and functional communication strategies or intervention to children and their families with disabilities or impairment that is irreversible to increase the children’s quality of life. 1) Natural Environment: Providing services in the child’s home, day care center, or early education programs to ensure the child and the primary care giver are the focus of the intervention and that intervention is embedded in the child’s daily routine with people they see everyday. 2) Daily Routine: Considers the family and the child’s daily activities. The daily routine highlights communication breakdown, helps to develop target goals and objectives, and is where early intervention services will be embedded to increase the child’s communication. 3) Family Interactions: Families are at the center of early intervention because they provide the necessary models on a daily basis that children need to communicate more effectively. 1) Joint Attention Skills: When looking at pictures, reading books, or even just playing with children, especially those with, decreased vocabulary, it is important that the child engages or attends to an object, picture, or toy that the caregiver is talking about. 2) Turn-Taking: This is teaching children to respond to physical and verbal cues, which helps set the stage for adequate communicative exchange in which there is a speaker and a listener. 3) Language Stimulation: The caregiver or care providers follows the child’s lead during play or in everyday activities and responds to the child’s actions by saying out loud what they are doing such as naming the item they are manipulating and describing the physical characteristics of the object. 4) Play Skills: Play is a good skill to teach speech and language concepts relevant to children’s everyday life, which will help them to become better communicators. Read my article about LANGUAGE STRATEGIES FOR PARENTS for kids with communication delays. Evgenia Stefanaki, who is the owner of All for Speech Center, is a nationally certified and licensed Speech&Language Pathologist and Orofacial Myofunctional Therapist in Nicosia. She writes on the blog about speech disorders and orofacial disorders. If you have any questions regarding our services or your personalized treatment options, feel free to contact us!
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