What is Speech and Language Impairment?

Children with Speech and Language Impairment are usually as able and healthy as other children in all ways, with one exception; they have enormous difficulty talking and understanding language. Children with Speech and Language Impairment often have specific and individual needs.

They may:

• Have difficulty saying what they want to, even though they have ideas
• Talk in sentences but be difficult to understand
• Sound muddled; it can be difficult to follow what they are saying
• Find it difficult to understand words and long instructions
• Have difficulty remembering the words they want to say
• Find it hard to join in and follow what is going on in the playground
• Find it difficult for concentrate for similar lengths of time to their peers
• Find social interaction challenging
• difficulty with keeping still and are often fidgety or restless - they find it hard to sit still and be calm
• low levels of confidence and can get anxious or upset easily

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