I need your help

[eileen brann]

Parissa,
It sounds to me that he needs work on intonation patterns, both prosody and
fluency of speech (connecting the final phoneme of one word to the initial
phoneme of the next word- co-articulation needed in most cases, which is why
it is so difficult for kids).
I work with many children diagnosed with autism who need this type of
therapy. It is very common, and I do not think that he is too old to learn
this skill.

For example, one 7 year old that I work with now uses flat intonation to
ask questions, so we are using arrows at the end of a question (he reads
well), and making the emphasized  word larger than the others words in the
sentence. I have found that anything that you can do to visually represent
intonation patterns helps more than auditory, but you might try both
ways.  There are resources available so if you search under intonation or
accent reduction/modification. Some names in this field are Lorna Sikorski
and Compton (but for intonation patterns, not just for autism).

Eileen M.Brann, M.S., M.Ed,  CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist
PhD student
Dept of Special Education
University of Illinois at Chicago

 Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 3:26 AM, parisa Daftarifard <pdaftaryfard at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear Childes members,
>
> Greetings,
>
> I am working on kids with special problems in language. One of the
> cases is 6 years old and diagnosed with autism. He has recently
> developed a Robotic language and although was not able to talk at all
> but at this age he started using very limited words concerning his
> need. His language is not creative though. Is there any way to help
> him to change his Robotic language to normal speech. Isn't it late for
> him to reach this end?
>
> I appreciate your help and advice in advance.
> Best,
> Parisa
>
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