Early Childhood Podcast Episode
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What is early intervention and why is it critical for children birth‑to‑5?
Hey everybody, this is Kari Clark and you are listening to episode number 39 of the Speech and Language Kids podcast. This is the podcast with resources and activities for speech therapists as well as parents of children with speech and language delays and disorders. And today we are talking about early intervention. So everything I'm talking about today is going to have to do with kiddos aged birth through five years. That is what I am considering early childhood for the purposes of this podcast. And I'm going to give you some tips, some tricks, some ideas of the different types of disorders you'll encounter with this population and anything else that may help you when working with these kiddos. So without further ado, we're going to jump right into the content.
I don't have any announcements today. So we talked a little bit about the ages of early childhood. Generally, this is the ages that happen before kindergarten or before the children go into public schools. If you are in another country other than the United States, you may have different ages when school starts. But for us here in the States, it is birth through five years early childhood, and then the schools take over at that point. Now these years are incredibly critical for communication development. There has been a proposed window of opportunity for language development that says that children that are younger have this window of time when it is very easy for them to learn language, and after that window closes, it gets more difficult to learn language.
So it's really important if you have kiddos in this age range that have communication problems, it's very important that they go ahead and get services as early as possible. And this will help make sure that they capitalize on that window of opportunity and really get in there and get some good progress made before they go off to school. Plus, once they enter school, you want them to have a good basis of communication so that they can then use communication to learn. So it's very important to work with these children and help them get what they need as early as possible. So I have put together on the website a resource page that will give you all of the different things that you need, all of the resources that I'm going to mention today.
And you can find that by going to speechandlanguagekids.com slash episode three nine. And that will take you over to my page with the early interventions or early childhood speech and language skills that you will need for the kiddos in that birth through five population. All right, so I'm going to just kind of go over some of the things that are on there and talk about some of my tips and tricks. The first thing that is on that resource page are the communication milestones for, I have one for six months, one for a year old, two years old, three years old, four year olds, and five year olds. So if you go over to that page at speechandlanguagekids.com slash episode 39, you can click on those links and it will show you exactly what speech and language skills that
children need at those different ages. Now, I'm not going to go through all of those because that would take a very long time. There's a lot of different skills that are needed, but you can go through and just kind of see which skills kids need at that age. If you're looking at a particular child, see if they have all the skills they need, or you can go back and check the younger ages and see if they missed any skills on the way up. But this will give you an idea of which kinds of skills to start with and which kinds of skills you can be expecting out of these kiddos. So let's go over some of the common early childhood communication problems that are usually encountered.
How can parents and clinicians identify and support late talkers?
Obviously, there are a ton of different things that can, quote unquote, go wrong in this population when you're talking about communication. So I'm not going to be able to cover all of those today, but I will cover some of the main ones and tell you some strategies to deal with those. So the first one is late talkers.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is early intervention and why is it critical for children birth‑to‑5?
0:00–3:28
2
How can parents and clinicians identify and support late talkers?
3:28–6:44
3
What strategies help improve speech sound production in preschoolers?
6:44–9:21
4
How can you boost language development with everyday routines?
9:21–12:12
5
What resources are available for non‑verbal children to gain functional communication?
12:12–13:45
6
When does stuttering become a red‑flag that needs therapy?
13:45–17:14
7
How can you manage challenging behaviors in early‑childhood speech‑language delays?
17:14–20:27
8
Where can listeners find free games, worksheets, and e‑books for early childhood therapy?
20:27–23:45