Functional Communication Curriculums for Speech Therapy
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Who can benefit from functional communication curriculums?
If you are working with a child who is not speaking yet or is struggling to communicate their basic wants and needs, then today's episode is for you. I am speech language pathologist Carrie Clark, and this is the Speech and Language Kids Podcast. And today we're talking about our functional communication curriculums for speech therapy. So these are pre-structured, pre-made structured programs that help children learn to. Communicate their basic wants and needs. So this is a um we're doing a season of the podcast right now where we're going through each of our six areas of communication that we cover in our SLK curriculum. And we're gonna go through each of the areas and talk about the different curriculums in there and the different resources and materials that we have available.
So it's kind of twofold. So part of it is if you already Have access to our curriculums. If you already have a subscription, this information will hopefully help you learn how to use it more efficiently and more effectively. But if you are not a part of our subscription yet, number one, it might help you decide if this is something that's right for you. But also just to give you some general information about how we approach working with children who are having these different kinds of challenges. So today is all functional communication, but you can browse through our other episodes and see which other areas we've covered as well. So today is comp is functional communication. So that means our students, our children who are struggling to communicate those basic wants and needs.
Maybe they're not speaking at all, maybe they're only speaking a little bit, maybe they're speaking with echolalia instead of single words, maybe they're using gestures or signs or a communication device. There's so many different ways that children communicate, and we're going to talk about a lot of those today. And we're going to talk about how to. To match the supports and resources that we're giving those students and those children with their particular needs. And that's what our functional communication curriculums are all about. We have four different communication, four different curriculums in this area. And I'm going to show you each of those and tell you about those today. And then hopefully you will understand these different pathways for how we can help children depending on how they're communicating.
So let's jump right in. We're going to start off by just kind of describing who would benefit from using these curriculums or or these pathways. So first of all, children and teens who are struggling to take turns or share activities with others. So sometimes just that basic interaction piece is what's missing and we can help them learn to engage with other people. We can also help those who are struggling to express their basic wants and needs. So again, if they are not able to request or comment or respond or greet those just those basic interaction skills that we kind of take for granted. If they're struggling to learn those, then we can use these curriculums to help them. Also, those who are repeating things that they have heard other people say, or they are quoting shows or videos that they've watched.
This is called echolalia, and it is a method of communication, but it's often confusing for the listener because the things that the child is saying may not actually be what they mean. The the the words that are coming out are what they've heard before, but they actually have a different meaning. So we're gonna help. kind of guide you on that path if you have someone who's communicating in that way of how we can support that communication. We also can help kids who are having trouble following directions or following basic routines and those who are maybe using some alternative means to communicate. Maybe they're using sign language or pictures, maybe they have a communication device or an app. Or maybe they're just using their behaviors to tell you what they need because that's the only tool available to them.
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