Co-occuring Speech-Language Disorders

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Re: Question

From: Ken Logan
Date: 19 Oct 2004
Time: 14:08:29 -0500
Remote Name: 128.227.115.216

Comments

Dear Alison: Your questions require more room to answer than this little text box probably allows! :-) Basically, as I said in the article, there is really a need to research questions such as the ones you have raised...until we do, I can do nothing more than speculate...I think one can look toward other "dual - task" activities to guide his or her speculation though. In most cases, it seems reasonable to assume that children will need to establish some minimal level of competence with each of the skills that you are trying to teaching them (e.g., fluency skills, language skills) before you can expect them to combine these skills with other skills. It's a little like driving and using your car's CD player...if you're new to driving and new to working the controls on the CD player, you definitely should not be doing both things at one time in any situation (I hope my daughter reads this!) If you're an old pro at driving, but unfamiliar with the CD player, you might be able to fiddle around with the CD player while driving, but only in very light traffic. If you're an old pro at driving and at operating the CD player, you can do both things together in nearly setting. Now, to get back to fluency therapy...You should probably start by addressing area specific objectives independently. As the child meets these basic objectives you can begin to ask him/her to do certain things simultaneosly (e.g., use easy onset AND some new syntactic form). Hope this helps! KJL


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