Language is fundamental to a child’s learning and growth. When speech and language challenges go unaddressed, they profoundly impact academic progress, personality development, self-confidence, and social relationships – with lifelong consequences.

While some speech disorders are easily identifiable, many children exhibit subtle, overlooked difficulties. These “invisible challenges” create classroom dilemmas where teachers struggle to address root causes, like “forcing a square peg into a round hole”, resulting in exhausted educators achieving minimal results despite heroic efforts.

Alarmingly, we’re witnessing rising cases of vocabulary deficits and telegraphic speech among children without congenital conditions. This epidemic demands excessive teacher intervention yet yields poor outcomes. In reality, all these issues simply require professional speech therapists to aid teachers in identification and correction, allowing teachers to focus more on teaching and achieving significantly better results.

The Solution:

While adults often miss children’s language challenges – leading to miscommunication and isolation – these obstacles are solvable through professional diagnosis and evidence-based intervention.

Consultant Speech Therapist

Dr. Joyce Chun