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Tele-Intervention: The Wave of the Future Fits Families' Lives Today
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Behl, Diane D.; Houston, K. Todd; Guthrie, W. Spencer; Guthrie, Nancy K. – Exceptional Parent, 2010
This article provides information on providing early intervention services virtually using distance communication technologies. It describes "tele-intervention," a new method of providing services to children and their families, and how it is used in a family with a deaf child. Tele-intervention has proven to be a viable service delivery model for…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Hearing Impairments, Deafness, Speech Language Pathology
Sharing Spoken Language: Sounds, Conversations, and Told Stories
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Birckmayer, Jennifer; Kennedy, Anne; Stonehouse, Anne – Young Children, 2010
Infants and toddlers encounter numerous spoken story experiences early in their lives: conversations, oral stories, and language games such as songs and rhymes. Many adults are even surprised to learn that children this young need these kinds of natural language experiences at all. Adults help very young children take a step along the path toward…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Speech, Oral Language, Childhood Interests
Communication Interactions: It Takes Two
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Stremel, Kathleen – National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness, 2008
Communication is the exchange of a message between two or more people. Every one communicates in many different ways and for many different reasons. Communication can be expressive or receptive. Children who are deaf-blind may never learn to talk. However, they can express themselves to you. They can receive the messages you send them. Through…
Descriptors: Deaf Blind, Interpersonal Communication, Children, Communication (Thought Transfer)
A Letter to the Parent(s) of a Child with Developmental Apraxia of Speech. Part II: The Nature and Causes of DAS.
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Hall, Penelope K. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2000
One of a series of letters to parents of children with developmental apraxia of speech (DAS), this letter discusses issues and current thinking about the nature and causes of the disorder. These include the idea that DAS is a disorder of overall language development or that DAS is a problem of the "motor-programming" system for speech.…
Descriptors: Child Development, Etiology, Language Acquisition, Parent Education
A Letter to the Parent(s) of a Child with Developmental Apraxia of Speech. Part III: Other Problems Often Associated with the Disorder.
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Hall, Penelope K. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2000
One of a series of letters to parents of children with developmental apraxia of speech, this letter discusses other problems associated with the disorder including language development problems, academic problems, motor skill problems, and chewing and swallowing difficulties. An annotated bibliography of two further readings for parents is…
Descriptors: Child Development, Language Acquisition, Learning Problems, Parent Education
A Letter to the Parent(s) of a Child with Developmental Apraxia of Speech. Part I: Speech Characteristics of the Disorder.
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Hall, Penelope K. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2000
One of a series of letters to parents of children with developmental apraxia of speech, this letter discusses the characteristics of the disorder including having been a "quiet" baby, slow and late development of speech skills, problems sequencing sounds and syllables correctly, and problems in correct "voicing". An appended…
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Stages, Language Acquisition, Parent Education