Language Development Strategies for Children with Special Needs

Assessment 2: Report
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ABSTRACT
This assignment focuses upon concept of Language development importance. It is an important
concept that helps in establishment of effective communication with other people. The main aim
of this study is to identify different kinds of language development strategies for children with
special needs. In this report, case study of a child named Zachary has been discussed, who had
permanent hearing loss issue. Further in this report history, background information of Zachary
has been highlighted, other than this, primary role of parent’s and other medical professionals
has also been discussed. In this relevant data or information of language development and
different intervention technique to bring improvement within child has also been discussed.
Other than this, in this report different kinds of theories that can be used for resolving hearing
loss problem of child has also been discussed.
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Contents
ABSTRACT....................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
Participant....................................................................................................................................4
Summary......................................................................................................................................5
Mode and skill development........................................................................................................5
Language Acquisition Theory.....................................................................................................7
Language Acquisition theory: Nativist theory.............................................................................8
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11
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Title: A Primary Aged Child and Nativist Theory of Language Acquisition
INTRODUCTION
Language development can be defined as a process in which a child can understand
communication language in their early childhood. It helps for babies or small children to identify
spoken sound in order to engage with other people through communication language. Language
development is one of the most important aspect for children, considered as important key of
communication. It is not only use for establishing the interaction with other through
communication language. This will help for expressing one’s feelings, point of view. In this
report, it will be observation of main language development among individual’s, which take
place during early stage. Different ways in which a person can communicate, express their
feelings with others, also improving their own learning ability or capability.
When particular child with different kind of physical problem such hearing problem or
problem in speaking can impact language development of a child. Due to this it becomes much
more important for parents or family members of such children to focus upon their language
development so that they can overcome their physical barriers in a proper manner (Wang,
Williams & Houston, 2020). This paper will focus upon language acquisition by focusing upon a
case study of a child named Zachary who has permanent hearing loss. In this paper summary of
history of language development of child, mode and skill development, theories of language
acquisition will be focused upon in detail.
Participant
According to scenario, I have been focused on the participant such as “Zachary”, who has
suffered from the permanent hearing loss, so as require to provide the route of auditory-verbal
and oral intervention after he was fitted with cochlear implant at 6-months.
According to me, this type of intervention approach will help for reducing the amount of
amplified hearing, which develop spontaneous speech and other process language in natural
manner (Dutra, 2020). It has been summarised about the current health condition of, “Zachary” ,
when medical professionals can perform the intervention approach in order to identify their
hearing possibilities. Afterwards, specialist can give advice “Zachary” parents, in which
considered the auditory verbal approach. It ensuring that children with hearing impairment to
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