Promoting a better understating of speech production in children with Cerebral Palsy helps further the knowledge of solutions. Through these three articles, multiple studies shine a light on the speech characteristics that Cerebral Palsy children endure. The studies are investigated in hopes that the disabled children will receive the appropriate treatment for their specific disorder. For the past three years I have been working with a young girl under 12 years old who has Cerebral Palsy. Every morning I get her day started from waking her up to dropping her off at school. Through this research project I hope to further my education into her disability. Going over homework with her I see her struggle with certain letters, words and phrases. …show more content…
The research question posed in the first article by Himmelmann, Lohmander, Minscalco and Nordberg, they ask, what is the connection between children with Cerebral Palsy and speech, language and communication disorders? In the second article by Lohmander, Miniscalco and Nordberg, they ask, what are the speech impairments of young children at various cognitive levels with Cerebral Palsy? The question in the last article by Minscalco, Nordberg and Sandberg they ask, how do the story telling skills vary in children with different types of Cerebral Palsy? All three articles discuss pathways to successfully exceeding a child with Cerebral Palsy’s learning, speaking and overall communication abilities. Through numerous studies of children with all types of Cerebral Palsy, each publication is able to identify, assess and offer useful treatments to each …show more content…
2005, Nordberg et al. 2013, 2014), making it difficult for them to communicate their thoughts.’” (Nordberg et al. 2015). Each child needs an equal right to communicate but unfortunately the effects of Cerebral Palsy have stripped many children of this ability. Thanks to the efforts of many Speech Pathologists and Audiologists children are obtaining more access to better speech production tools and programs. Each of these articles looks to use these studies to find specific ways to help children with each type of Cerebral
As most people know speech and language issues would only happen with children just learning to talk and tennagers in middle school to high school. The reasoning behind this is because most people don’t correct their children’s speech when they are first learning due to the fact that the parents or grandparents think it is to cute to correct, which only hurts the children more th...
McCleery et al. (2006) studied the speech sound development of minimally verbal and nonverbal children with ASD and compared their development to typically developing children who were matched for language production and comprehension skills. Their findings indicate that children with ASD, even those that are severely language delayed, show the same general consonant production patterns as typically developing children. Moreover, the production pattern of children with ASD is practically identical for sounds produced spontaneously and sounds produced in imitation....
Jayden, a two and a half year old boy loves story time, being social, and has mental and sensory functions typical for his age. However, Jayden was diagnosed with impairments in his neuromusculoskeletal and movement functions. This condition causes poor muscle control, which prevents Jayden from being mobile. As a result, Jayden sits in a baby stroller when out in the community. Adding to Jayden’s problems is dysarthria, which restricts him from producing clear speech, preventing him from communicating with peers and adults. The combination of Jayden’s neuromuscular skeletal impairments and dysarthria, restricts his engagement in self-care, communicating with classmates, directing his own play, creating interpersonal relationships, mobility
Many people have heard the term cerebral palsy and may have a personal perception about the appearance and effects of this
It is reported by the CDC that 1 in 323 children in the U.S will be diagnosed with CP. Cerebral means having to do with the brain Palsy means weakness or problems with using the muscular tissues. The term cerebral palsy (CP) was originally coined more than a century ago and loosely translates as "brain paralysis." Even so, a precise definition has not been concluded because cerebral palsy is not a one diagnosis, simply an "umbrella" term that describes brain lesions that involve motor or postural abnormalities discovered during early development. CP is one of the leading causes affecting development and function in childhood from the fetal or neonatal period to up to age 3 years. Nevertheless, the diagnosis of cerebral palsy may not be made until after that time. Some advocate not getting a definitive diagnosis in sele...
Cerebral Palsy (CP) is a condition marked by impaired muscle coordination and other disabilities, which causes damage to the brain before and during birth. Cerebral palsy is a static disorder of the brain, not a progressive disorder. This mean that the disorder or disease process will not get worse as time goes on. Nor are the motor disorders associated with cerebral palsy temporary. (Miller and Bachrach pg. 3) Cerebral Palsy affects the nervous system by having dysfunctions, in movements such as, learning, hearing, seeing, and thinking. During the first 3 to 5 years of a child's life Cerebral Palsy occur because the baby's brain is still developing. (CP is one of the most common congenital (existing before birth or at birth) disorders of childhood). Spastic, athetoid, ataxic and dystonic are all different types of Cerebral Palsy. Majority of circumstances with children having CP are unknown, then again numerous results show problems during pregnancy in which the brain is damaged or doesn't develop normally. “This can be due to infections, maternal health problems, a genetic disorder, or something else that interferes with normal brain development.” Cerebral palsy is also caused by injuries and abnormalities of the brain; as the baby grows in the womb these problems occur. Some causes may lead to problems with brain development which include:
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As a high school student, I worked with a thirteen-year-old boy named Ricky as a sign language tutor. Ricky had autism and did not acquire speech other than the word “ma”. A high population of children with autism does not acquire speech, and intervention is needed. Other methods of intervention exist, but teaching signs is one of the most useful ways of giving nonverbal children the power of communication. Although researchers often seek to solve problems, I approach this topic from the perspective of a teacher. Teachers must grapple with educating a higher percentage of children with communicative challenges due to a growing diagnosis of autism. Special education policy must work to support the needs of these students while giving teachers opportunities to practice appropriate interventions. The success of sign language instruction will vary among children, but invested parents and teachers may be able to help a child realize his or her communicative potential.
Before meeting Eric Walker, and his family, I didn’t really have very much experience or knowledge of what it meant to have a child or sibling with Cerebral Palsy. Meeting with Eric, and his family, along with his speech therapist not only gave me an insight into what it really means to live with a disability and to care for a child with a physical disability, but also the opportunity for me to apply what I have learned in this class and other classes to a real life situation.
Cerebral Palsy is a condition that limits physical abilities. This disability affects about one child in every five hundred children (Micheksen 405). Cerebral Palsy is mostly known to affect children by severe motor impairment, however; this disorder can affect a person in a psychological way too.
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Communication is very crucial in life, especially in education. Whether it be delivering a message or receiving information, without the ability to communicate learning can be extremely difficult. Students with speech and language disorders may have “trouble producing speech sounds, using spoken language to communicate, or understanding what other people say” (Turkington, p10, 2003) Each of these problems can create major setbacks in the classroom. Articulation, expression and reception are all essential components for communication. If a student has an issue with articulation, they most likely then have difficulty speaking clearly and at a normal rate (Turkington, 2003). When they produce words, they may omit, substitute, or even distort sounds, hindering their ability to talk. Students who lack in ways of expression have problems explaining what they are thinking and feeling because they do not understand certain parts of language. As with all types of learning disabilities, the severity can range. Two extreme cases of expression disorders are dysphasia and aphasia, in which there is partial to no communication at all (Greene, 435, 2002). Individuals can also have a receptive disorder, in which they do not fully comprehend and understand information that is being given to them. They can experience problems making sense of things. “Children may hear or see a word but not be able to understand its meaning” (National Institutes of Health, 1993, p1). Whether children have difficulty articulating speech, expressing words, receiving information, or a combination of the three, there is no doubt that the tasks given to them in school cause frustration. These children experience anxiety when...
Speech and language delays can be problematic for preschoolers, school aged children and adolescents. These delays range in degree of severity and have many causes; physical and developmentally. Communication plays a specific and important role to all people, especially, preschool children who are developing speech and language skills at fast rate. The consequences of these delays can be devastating for the children affected and can follow them into adulthood. These effects may include academic problems, social and emotional issues and may even lead into mental illness. Children with speech and language delays need professional intervention as young as possible. However even with intervention, some children are still at risk of suffering the negative effects of speech and language delay.
Even though it is not easy to cope with such disability, many people with CP eventually learn to overcome it again and again in life. Even when Cerebral Palsy can make life difficult sometimes physically, psychologically, socially, it does not define those who have it. Those who have it are people. There are legal rights to protect against discrimination, and treatments to improve physical strength and self-esteem. Many people, even kids can look for inspiration upon actors such as Geri Jewell who boldly faced challenges day to day. And in the end, with support of family and friends, and determination, cerebral palsy, though chronic, can be overcome. It’s like a journey, a quest for the better with guides along the way but twice the obstacles.
For a student with Down syndrome, they find large deficits in syntax. The emergence of two-word combinations is delayed in young children with Down syndrome, and children and adolescents with Down syndrome continue to produce shorter and less complex utterances than same-age peers. For example, Price and colleagues (2008) found that a group of 31 boys with Down syndrome produced less complex noun phrases, verb phrases, sentence structures, and less complex questions and negations during conversation with an examiner than younger typically developing boys of similar nonverbal mental age.