Blog 18 - Answer 2

1.  What is your EQ?

• How can a speech pathologist best help a client meet their language development goals? 

2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

• A speech therapist can help a client best meet their language development goals by making sure there is active parent involvement.

3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

• A speech therapist can best help a client meet their language development goals by early intervention. 

4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.

• Prevention of a disorder - If there is early intervention, a speech disorder can be pushed back/delayed and the disorder can even be avoided all together.
• Strategies - During early intervention, a speech therapist can teach strategies to help a client compensate for their disorder. Ex: If a child with down syndrome can't speak, they can be tought gestures, Baby Sign, and even ASL. 
• Basic Skill - Early Intervention gives a client with language delays a better chance at having appropriate social, communicative skills at the age level they should. 

5.  What printed source best supports your answer?

• The printed source that best supports my answer is an article about early intervention written by the AmericanSpeech-Language-Hearing Association. 

6.  What other source supports your answer?

• Some other sources that support my answer are sources found on a website called Day 2 Day Parenting and all the content the website is developed and written by their team of early childhood professionals: Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech-Language Pathologists, Developmentalists, and Dietitians.

7.  Tie this together with a  concluding thought.

• Early intervention is an important component of helping ensure a successful speech therapy cycle. It can help reduce the need of speech therapy as the client gets older and can even eliminate the need of therapy past the developing stages of the diagnosis.