Child N Observation

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Based on observations of Child N, I noticed he exhibits significant difficulty with expressive and pragmatic language skills. The day I observed the child was the day he had speech therapy in a group session. Due to the confidentiality of the other children, the speech therapist was uncomfortable with me attending the speech session with Child N. As per the teachers the child was said to demonstrate consistent errors in speech sound production. One or more of the child’s phonological patterns of sound are at least 40% disordered which makes the conversational intelligibility significantly affected. Some of these errors include distortions, substitutions and omissions. As noted in chapter 8 in the textbook, speech sounds errors are defined as