Nancy Young

And the services of a speech-language pathologist

will be, in my mind, certainly valuable in terms of assessing and trying to determine whether there is a problem because teachers are not trained in this.

And it isn't something that we would expect teachers to be trained in.

The book certainly gives...

recommendations for teachers, but I would say you want to bring in a speech language pathologist, and schools have access to these, and so parents would advocate, you know, can my child, you may need to, you know, be a little vocal.

But again, early is important.

And once you have a skilled speech-language pathologist assessed, then you know whether there's a problem.

If there isn't a problem, then you're reassured.

If there is a problem, then you're ready to work collaboratively.

Teacher, you know, the language therapist, I think they might be called New Zealand, and parent to work collaboratively to support the child in improving this.

And

And developmental language disorder is hard to address.

But like anything, if we have the right support, more can be done than if you leave it.

These children also, it's hard in high school and social emotionally if they're having trouble with their language.

So it's really important to support.

to find out what a child needs and to be ready to support them all through the school.

And that, you know, parents, I encourage you to do that if it is an issue.

is natural for a child to start reading so how would how would you know if your child is reading earlier than is typical all right well first of all thank you for drawing attention to that chapter and just so people know the uh first part of the book is is very general in terms of um

Building in parents' background knowledge as to the big picture and start to think where does my child or where do my children fit in terms of where they might be on the ladder of reading and writing.

And then part two delves into what we decided to call exceptionalities.