Meeting the Needs of Children and Families
Meeting the Needs of Children and Families
Introduction to Child and Family
Naija is eleven months of age. Her brother, Desmond, ten years is the eldest amongst her siblings. Her twin sisters Venus and Mary are three years old. Her mother is a single parent. In the recent past, Naija has a speech disorder known as Child Apraxia of Speech (CAS). The mother has only moved to Toronto with her kids recently with a goal of starting a new life. Evidently, she’s having other issued that are mumbling her as she appears stressed up.
Child Apraxia of Speech (CAS)
This is a motor speech disorder. Children suffering from CAS experience problems producing sounds, pronouncing words and syllables. This is because the brain has problems in getting ready to move the parts of the body involved in speech – tongue, lips and jaws (Nelson, 2010). Though the child may know what they mean to say, they cannot because the brain cannot effectively coordinate the movement of muscles required to say the words.
According Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2004) to Infants with this disorder exhibit the following symptoms: do mot bubble or coo; pronounce only a few consonants and vowels; start talking much later than the normal kids; have challenges combining sounds and may have long pauses; and may have problems when eating.
Introduction to Naija’s special needs
Before breaking the news to the mother, I would first advise the parent on how to take care of her child. After breaking the news to her, I would encourage her to accept her daughter’s condition and advise her how she should focus on helping Naija improve or recover from the condition, citing past successful cases. After learning about her child’s condition, it is almost outright that Naija’s mother would deny the news. This would be followed by the mourning of the loss of a perfect child as per her desire. As an early childhood educator, I ought advice Naija’s mother on how she could best take care of her child. First, I would refer her to either Holland Bloorview Kids and Rehabilitation Hospital or Centennial Infants and Child Centre. The two organizations have programs the address issues of early childhood development issues.
In addition, the infants’ physical environment contains significant messages to them. Therefore, placing materials in both the indoor and outdoor environments would introduce Naija to new exploration and discovery opportunities. According to Paul (2012), an environment matching the developing interests and abilities demands skilful planning. In Naija’s case, for instance, displaying materials that are familiar to her, such as pictures of children with their parents would be helpful. An infant will always smile when stretching to touch a teacher who is nearby or another infant and this helps then to learn how to live with each other.
Meeting the needs in the Childcare Centre
According to Damico (2010), successful treatment can be achieved by intensive frequents therapies – i.e. three to five times every week. To start with, Naija should be examined by an audiologist in order to truly ascertain that her condition is not as a result of difficulties in hearing. If possible, Naija should see the audiologist alone during the therapy sessions. Studies show that children treated alone do better that those treated as a group (Bowen, 2015). Since children with CAS have a challenge of speech muscle coordination, intervention should primarily focus on enhancing the coordination rather than strengthening the oral muscles.
Although improving the child’s speech skills is important, the therapy should also focus on getting feedback from the various senses such as the visual and touch cues and auditory feedback as well (Paul, 2012). If need be, the child should be taught sign language to complement speech if speaking is too difficult. Once the recovers from the speech problems, the need for the other skills may no longer be necessary but they will undoubtedly help the kid to reach advanced levels of speech quickly (Domino, 2010).
For quicker recovery, the child needs to carry on with her speech practices even after the therapy sessions. The caregivers should however understand that CAS treatment takes time and successful results require consistency, patience and persistence. Therefore the therapy and practice sessions should not exhaust the child.
Referral Agencies
Holland Bloorview Kids and Rehabilitation Hospital offers home based infants’ consultations and therapies for kids aged zero to five years, among other services. Their 0 – 2 years babies program is offered at Holland Blooview Nursery School. The cost of their services depends on the nature of the developmental issues at hand. More information about their services may be obtained from their website; https://hollandbloorview.ca/programsandservices/Earlylearninganddevelopment/Infantdevelopmentservice
Centennial Infants and Child Centre endeavor to assist children with learning and developmental issues. The organization achieve it mandate through preschool integrated programs and community based programs. The costs of their services vary from one service to another. More information about the organization can be retrieved from the website http://www.cicc.ca/therapy-services/
References
Damico, J. S. (2010). The handbook of language and speech disorders. Malden, Mass: Wiley-Blackwell.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (2004). The MIT encyclopedia of communication disorders. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press
Nelson, N. W. (2010). Language and literacy disorders: Infancy through adolescence. Boston: Allyn and Bacon Publishers.
Paul, R. (2012). Language disorders from infancy through adolescence: Listening, speaking, reading, writing, and communicating. Ss.Louis, Miss: Mosby Inc
Bowen, C. (2015). Children’s speech sound disorders. Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley Blackwel
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