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wait your tags cut out in the post with the baby asking about the light bulb pls keep going it was interesting, also anything else you wanna say as a speech pathologist is cool af too

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Basically, not totally related to that post, but when you're a baby, you hear all the different human noises around you and your brain goes "oh hey, it's going to be necessary for me to be able to make that sound at some point" and it starts to figure out the motor plans it needs to get your tongue, lips, soft palate etc to make those sounds. After a certain critical period, if your baby brain hasn't heard the sound enough, it goes "eh, we don't need to know how to do this".

So if you think about languages that require you to be able to roll your 'r' sounsd. If you haven't grown up hearing enough people around you rolling their 'r's, you quite likely won't physically be able to do it. Which means you might suck at French.

You can still learn how to understand and speak the language. But your brain doesn't learn motor patterns and languages as easily as an adult as it does when you're a kid.

Babies are sponges.

I'm not a Speech pathologist yet, but only have a few more weeks until my last exams!! Super excited!

Feel free to ask me questions, I get very excited about speech and language these days.

#omg someone actually interracted with me #someone read my tags #future new graduate speech pathologist here #Just got offered a job interview at a place that focuses on dyslexia and literacy which is super awesome #speech pathology #speech development

on writing children

hi, I’m a fanfic author & a speech-language pathologist.

it’s tough to write children in-character when you don’t have a real-life frame of reference. I’ve found this website to be super helpful - it tells you about their social/emotional development, language/communication, cognition, and motor development in point form with photo or video examples (2 months-5 years). For the older ages, try this one (it focuses less on language, etc. when it gets to age 11 but they’re pretty much talking like adults and focusing on the hormonal hell of adolescence after that point).

Making sure that you have an understanding of what is developmentally appropriate is key to writing a good child character. Sometimes I come across a story that has a four-year-old with the emotional maturity of an adult or I see an 11-year-old talking like a six-year-old, and it really throws me off as a reader.

Let’s talk about speech. You know how kids say words wrong? That also has a developmental pattern. Consult something like this (see the “common errors” column) before you start typing out speech errors that don’t make sense or have a 3 year old say sounds they shouldn’t be able to. Transcribing speech errors is a stylistic choice (e.g., “I hafta go to da bafwoom”); in general, I would only type it out like that if the kid is adorably mispronouncing a name. And if that’s your choice, just make sure the errors actually make sense!

And what if your child character doesn’t have typically-developing speech and/or language, such as a speech sound disorder, a language disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder, or maybe a stutter? Consult resources like ASHA before taking a guess (or send me a private message, I’d be happy to chat about it).

If you take the time to do some research and ensure your child character is developmentally accurate, your story will flow better and your readers will be easily immersed in your story.

I hope you found this helpful!

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It is often thought that nothing much happens linguistically in the first year of life. Indeed, most people think that babies do not 'start to talk' until they are about one year old and say their 'first word'. But long before we hear them produce intelligible words, they are learning a great deal about sounds – in particular, about the basic phonetic functions on which speech depends. Unless they can focus their auditory attention (listening), discriminate sounds from each other, and recognize sounds when they hear them repeated, they will make little progress in learning to speak.

How Language Works

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I cannot think of a more intriguing, challenging, fascinating, rewarding branch of language study than the study of language development in children. It is commonplace for parents to react with amazement to the speed and ingenuity with which their children establish their personalities and develop their abilities, but few are aware of just how remarkable the whole language learning process is. In a nutshell: language is the most complex piece of behaviour a child will ever learn. Languages, in the case of two-thirds of the human race – for most children grow up in a multilingual environment and learn two or more at a time. Languages typically have dozens of sounds, hundreds of sound combinations, thousands of grammatical constructions, and tens of thousands of words in everyday use, and most people are unaware of the way they are acquired. Consider how much linguistic detail there is in this sentence, used by Susie when she was approaching age three: 'The mouse is very cross cos his hat felled down in the water.' Note her awareness of how we can intensify meaning (through the use of 'very'). Her sense of causality ('cos'). Her knowledge of how we form past tenses by adding '-ed' – something she has worked for herself, for no adult would ever have said 'felled' in her hearing. And, though you can't see it in this transcription, she had every vowel and consonant right, and produced the 13-word two-part sentence with perfect stress, rhythm and intonation. All this from a child who had been alive for less than a thousand days. How on earth did she do it? How on earth do they all do it? And why, sometimes, are they not able to do it? That is the task facing researchers in child language acquisition.

Just a Phrase I'm Going Through: My Life in Language

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A small routine change for us can feel like a BIG emotional shift for a neurodivergent child. 💙

Unexpected plans, changed schedules, different environments, or even a delayed activity can trigger anxiety, overwhelm, frustration, or meltdowns.

Behind every reaction is a child trying to feel secure in a world that suddenly feels unpredictable. 💛

Let’s replace “They’re overreacting” with “They’re having a hard time adjusting.”

Save this reel to spread awareness & support neurodivergent children with more understanding. 🌈

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You are an expert in your field. You’ve spent years mastering nuances and complexities that others don’t catch. Yet when you try to explain them to people, they look puzzled instead of excited. Somehow your ideas land with a thud. This isn’t about anyone’s intelligence. This is about translation. This gap between what you know and what others can grasp when you explain is costing you opportunities and impact.

Why do smart people struggle?

As an expert, you have forgotten what it was like to be a newbie. You skip steps or use references that sound like a foreign language to others. You are either sharing ideas in fragments or moving too quickly from point to point. Message development is a craft that comes in handy at this point. It helps you rebuild your thinking in a sequence that makes sense to someone looking at it from scratch.

The real barriers

While it’s a no brainer that one must avoid using technical terms or jargon when speaking to non-experts, that’s only the issue on the surface. The actual issues are deeper. Maybe your main point is buried under a lot of contexts. Or you are plugging in so many exceptions or qualifiers that your core insight disappears.

You may fail to highlight what matters or emphasize the wrong details. You need to simplify your message structure and slow down. People cannot follow your mental speed. They need time to catch up, while you connect your ideas better.

Using better frameworks

Start with the one thing that you would want to stay with people even if they forget everything you said. Build a bit of background around it to make sense. Explain a principle with a concrete example. Connect new concepts to something they are already familiar with.

One way you could check your structure is to see if it was simple enough for a middle-schooler to grasp. If not, you need to make your content simpler. This will make your ideas powerful enough to be remembered.

Practice and deliver

Keep practicing your explanations with people and look out for any gaps in understanding. This is your clue to refine your speech further. Repeated cycles of practice and simplifying are all a part of speech development. Continue with it until your complicated ideas flow naturally.

Make a note of which examples land and which don’t. Notice when people lose the plot and become confused. Pay attention to your own discomfort as you simplify. Resist in the temptation to pack in all your knowledge and focus on making it more understandable. This will make your delivery smooth and deliberate.

Conclusion

Your ideas will remain trapped inside your head until you learn to translate them to your audience. The gap between you and your audience can be filled only through effective communication. That takes patience and practice. Master this art and your ideas will get the impact they deserve.

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