Around two children in every Australian classroom of 28 will experience difficulties with speech, listening, following instructions, and putting sentences together for no known reason. This was the experience of Australian mother Katrina Lacey, who suspected her toddler son was not speaking like other kids his...
Lots of kids are ‘late talkers’, writes Suzanne Meldrum. Here’s when to take action As a speech pathologist, university lecturer and parent of young children, I often get asked a version of the following: My child isn’t talking yet. Is that a problem? And is it my...
Early intervention is most important, writes Catherine Best. Every parent cherishes their child’s first words, those meaningful, gabbled sounds that chart their development from passive infant to interacting person. Speech and language define how we engage with the world and are the building blocks of learning,...
