Communication can consist of delivering a message to even receiving information. When speech, language, and hearing disorders are put into play, communication, in general, can be extremely difficult. This is true for Tyler Baker, as stated by Paulette Young, Tyler’s mother. This past August, Tyler, male, turned 5 years of age. However, when Tyler was only two years old, he was diagnosed with specific language impairment, and then developmental language disorder. In other words, he acquired a language deficiency. Tyler was born pre-mature, from the time he was born till age two, Paulette never though an impairment as such could in power her son. By the age of two, toddlers have an expressive vocabulary of 150-200 words. Tyler, had not spoken
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“The day I found out my son was not growing, speech wise, at the rate he was supposed to, my heart broke and I felt like an awful mother. However, this impairment was not my fault, therefore, I wanted nothing but to be present for my son and help him. And that’s what I did. Until this point, within my son I noticed he had a hard time telling me what he wanted or needed and when he tried to speak, the words were hard to understand. When he was around three years old I was pushing words on him, more heavily with the means of help. I noticed he was learning to talk in sentences, although those sentences were hard to understand. When age four came around, fast I might add, there was a lot of improvement. He was able to be understood, although he was at the level of a three year old, I saw improvement every day. He remembered the alphabet and could count to ten on his own. And now? I see him at the level of other children his age. However, he still does have a hard time understanding certain things, putting the right words together in specific situations, as well as stay concentrated. He still needs my help, even further into his childhood, teenage, adulthood years, and that is what I will be here for. I never want to see my son not improving.” Said Paulette. Within the interview, the question of whether or not Tyler’s speech/language problems could have
“The day I found out my son was not growing, speech wise, at the rate he was supposed to, my heart broke and I felt like an awful mother. However, this impairment was not my fault, therefore, I wanted nothing but to be present for my son and help him. And that’s what I did. Until this point, within my son I noticed he had a hard time telling me what he wanted or needed and when he tried to speak, the words were hard to understand. When he was around three years old I was pushing words on him, more heavily with the means of help. I noticed he was learning to talk in sentences, although those sentences were hard to understand. When age four came around, fast I might add, there was a lot of improvement. He was able to be understood, although he was at the level of a three year old, I saw improvement every day. He remembered the alphabet and could count to ten on his own. And now? I see him at the level of other children his age. However, he still does have a hard time understanding certain things, putting the right words together in specific situations, as well as stay concentrated. He still needs my help, even further into his childhood, teenage, adulthood years, and that is what I will be here for. I never want to see my son not improving.” Said Paulette. Within the interview, the question of whether or not Tyler’s speech/language problems could have