Language and Speech Disorder Matrix

Language and Speech Disorder Matrix
Disability Category

Common Language Deficits

Intervention Strategies
Description

Intervention Strategies Rationale

At-Home Activity Recommendations

Learning Disabilities

Learners with learning disabilities can have dyslexia (reading disability), phonological deficits, challenges in producing sounds, distorted writing (dysgraphia), and an inability to recognize body language and social cues (Dominguez & Carugno, 2020).

Educators can increase phonological awareness by encouraging repeated oral reading practice cues (Dominguez & Carugno, 2020). It would enhance reading, writing, sound production, and phonological awareness.

Repeated oral reading enhances fluency, letter-sound proficiency, and sound structure of words, enhancing phonological and reading deficits cues (Dominguez & Carugno, 2020).

Families should adequately stimulate their children's academics by rereading storybooks and other child books to improve language deficits like reading and writing.

Intellectual Disabilities

Children delay talking and language function (Marrus & Hall, 2017). Additionally, they have limited abilities to explain or express things like frustration or external factors due to communication impairment.
 

Individualized Education Programs (IEP) can help children with intellectual disabilities to accomplish learning goals (Marrus & Hall, 2017). Additionally, incorporating language modeling can teach children to express themselves using nonverbal cues.

IEP is an individualized initiative of learning that accommodates learners with language deficits and enhances language development, thus fulfilling the child's language needs (Marrus & Hall, 2017). Using nonverbal cues like gestures can help the learners to express or explain something.

Marrus and Hall (2017) recommend that family members give the child adequate time to start communication or response, praise the child's communication attempts, and give the child chances to communicate their choices and want.

Autism

Autistic children could have impaired social communication, language delays, and impairment, including deficits in language structure like semantics, grammar, and phonology. They could also experience receptive and expressive language deficits, delay acquiring language, and lack pragmatic abilities that entail proper use of language in social contexts (Georgiou & Spanoudis, 2021).

Educators can design and complete a Children's Communication Checklist to detect communication challenges. It would help early detection and interventions for pragmatic and language impairment (Georgiou & Spanoudis, 2021).

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