Since communication is language and it is in everything we do, I would say almost everything is affected.
Of course language difficulty doesn’t affect your physical development or ability to eat, etc., but since we communicate everywhere, all aspects of a child’s life are affected.
Of course language difficulty doesn’t affect your physical development or ability to eat, etc., but since we communicate everywhere, all aspects of a child’s life are affected.
The biggest impact is in school.
Children with these disorders have a very hard time in school.
It is a fast-paced environment with very little one-on-one instruction in a noisy, distracting atmosphere.
Following multi-step directions, reading, writing, and answering questions are the primary means of teaching and performing in class.
Considering that a child with language difficulty has trouble in all these areas,it is no wonder that the classroom can be a very confusing place for these children.
Communication skills are at the heart of the education experience.
A Receptive Language Disorder (not understanding language) makescomprehending and following along in class difficult.
Then add an Expressive Language Disorder (difficulty expressing language) and you have a child who is unable to share what they know or think or feel.
They may not have appropriate language structure to make words into sentences and sentences into paragraphs.
They may say the wrong word when they try to answer a question in class and get laughed at for the answer and they don’t even know why.
Or even worse, get punished because the teacher thought that they were answering wrong on purpose to get attention.
They may not give enough information or be able to choose the information that they need to give because they can’t sort out what is or isn’t important.
Combine these problems with difficulty in reading and writing and it makes meeting the classroom expectations almost impossible.
Social Skills (Pragmatics) are most definitely affected.
Many of these children don’t know the unspoken rules of conversation and social interaction which most of us just do naturally.
This causes inappropriate behavior with others that makes it difficult to make and keep friends. Teasing and bullying can be a big problem.
And most seriously, academic failure combined with social failure causes low self-esteem and fear of more failure.
So as you can see...
It is a fast-paced environment with very little one-on-one instruction in a noisy, distracting atmosphere.
Following multi-step directions, reading, writing, and answering questions are the primary means of teaching and performing in class.
Considering that a child with language difficulty has trouble in all these areas,it is no wonder that the classroom can be a very confusing place for these children.
Communication skills are at the heart of the education experience.
A Receptive Language Disorder (not understanding language) makescomprehending and following along in class difficult.
Then add an Expressive Language Disorder (difficulty expressing language) and you have a child who is unable to share what they know or think or feel.
They may not have appropriate language structure to make words into sentences and sentences into paragraphs.
They may say the wrong word when they try to answer a question in class and get laughed at for the answer and they don’t even know why.
Or even worse, get punished because the teacher thought that they were answering wrong on purpose to get attention.
They may not give enough information or be able to choose the information that they need to give because they can’t sort out what is or isn’t important.
Combine these problems with difficulty in reading and writing and it makes meeting the classroom expectations almost impossible.
Social Skills (Pragmatics) are most definitely affected.
Many of these children don’t know the unspoken rules of conversation and social interaction which most of us just do naturally.
This causes inappropriate behavior with others that makes it difficult to make and keep friends. Teasing and bullying can be a big problem.
And most seriously, academic failure combined with social failure causes low self-esteem and fear of more failure.
So as you can see...
...language disorders affect E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G.
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