Melissa Chan-Green

I don't know what a bat is.

Yes, yes.

Comprehension.

So when you're reading with a child, reading a book, then having a discussion about what some of those words mean and the storyline, that can all help to avoid SRCD, can it?

Can it help to build comprehension?

Because as a parent, too, you kind of, I guess, you...

You always have the best intentions and you could be reading and talking about all of these things.

So it's nice to know that actually sometimes that those difficulties are going to be there regardless.

Otherwise, you know, as parents, you kind of beat yourself up and think, what have I done wrong or what haven't I been doing?

But sometimes they're going to exist anyway.

Yes, exactly.

Or I guess work on the motor skills as well.

That's why it's so important we also look at movement and developing children's bodies to be ready, right?

I would say that the book is really useful because it has chapters on each of these particular exceptionalities and more and ways in which you can think as a parent, okay, how, well, first of all, how do I identify this, but also what are the ways in which I can support and advocate for my child.

To move on to DLD.

Now, DLD is an interesting one because it's developmental language disorder, which I initially thought, and I think a lot of people think, is a problem with making sounds or words, but it's not actually a speech problem, is it?

Right.

Well, hopefully this discussion, talking about some of those exceptionalities, will be useful for parents to be able to identify early too.

There are a number of others.

I just want to finish on advanced in reading because at what age...