Question

Disscus the role of speech therapist, occupational therapist, and special educator, for students with the special needs in detail....​

Answer 1

Answer:

Speech therapist or speech-language pathologists are trained personnel who work with children having speech-related disorders. They also provide screening, consultation, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, management and counseling services for children with special needs. Speech therapy plays an important role towards the holistic development in a child with autism spectrum disorder. It improves overall communication, enhances social skills, enables to cope up better with the society and function in day-to-day life. It should be started as early as diagnosis is made.

Answer 2

Explanation:

• Speech therapist or speech-language pathologists are trained personnel who work with children having speech-related disorders. They also provide screening, consultation, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, management and counseling services for children with special needs. Speech therapy plays an important role towards the holistic development in a child with autism spectrum disorder. It improves overall communication, enhances social skills, enables to cope up better with the society and function in day-to-day life. It should be started as early as diagnosis is made.

Role of speech therapist

Role of speech therapistSpeech therapist does much more than simply teaching a child to correctly pronounce words. In fact, a speech therapist working with an autistic child may work on a wide range of skills including:

Speech articulation: by oromotor exercises of lip and facial muscles, the way a child moves mouth while saying certain words and sounds.

Communication: This includes teaching gestural communication, or training with PECS (picture exchange cards), electronic talking devices, and other non-verbal communication tools.

Comprehension: The speech therapist engages the child in a functional language activities that involve cognition and social interaction.

Speech pragmatics: Use of speech to build social relationships.

Conversation skills: Self Talk, parallel talk, sentence elongation, situational talk

Conceptual skills: Big and small concept, left & right concept, color concept, body parts concepts, yes and no concept