What should a speech therapist be doing with a child that is 11 or 12 months old?

Question

What should a speech therapist be doing with a child that is 11 or 12 months old?

Answer 1

Working with beginning sounds, babbling, making loud vs. soft sounds, devolping vocabulary, using sounds to communicate to others, etc.

An eleven month old WOULD or SHOULD be working on developing a receptive vocabulary.  The therapist should be saying things like "This is a ball.  Ball."  The hope is that the kid would begin to recognize that this is a word, words actually mean things (aha! communication!) and then they world work on  expressive communication.

Answer 2

You may want to clarify why the child is in speech therapy.  Is it a physical problem?  That seems very early for a speech therapist to be be working with a baby unless there is an actual structural problem with the child's mouth.

Answer 3

depends on the needs

often at this age it is oral motor/feeding issues-

can also stimulate babbling

an 11 or 12 month old would nopt be workign on vocabulary-at this age the most expressive language would be mama, dada, and a few otehr words--the child may receptively recognize labels of some familiar things in his envronment-

speech therapy usually isn't started unless there is a SIGNIFICANT Delay (25% or more)  So a 1 year old would have to have language skills below the 8 month level -which does not work on vocabulary-

Answer 4

beginning sounds, building vocabulary