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How Does Your Child Hear and Talk?

Parents often ask me whether their young child has a speech delay.  More often these days I get referrals from local preschools for children in danger of being removed from programs due to behavior problems.  Many times, these young ones have an undiagnosed speech delay.  Speech delays in young children are not uncommon and free help (imagine!) is available through the public school system even for the preschool aged child.

This information sheet from the American Speech Language Hearing Association gives the developmental milestones for speech from ages 1-5 as well as ways parents and caregivers can help children build language skills.

How Does Your Child Hear and Talk?.

Here are a few book resources, which link to Amazon.

The Late Talker   Out Of Sync Child

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Care.com

I often run into people looking for caregivers – for their children, senior parents, even their pets.  Care.com lets you search for babysitters, care for seniors, pet-sitters, and housekeepers/sitters by state.  You can search for special needs and tutors also. There is a small fee for background checks.  The people that I know who have used the site to find care for seniors and children have been impressed by the ease and choices they were given.  Since we live in a metropolitan area, there may be more referrals for our area, however, compared to other referral agencies this site compared favorably in cost and ease to other nanny services.

The site also offered helpful information related child and senior care.  Many adults are now caring for children and aging parents- finding caregivers and information on how to care for aging parents is an unexpected challenge.

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