Hello from the OC Childhood Language Center.
After a well-deserved break, the center is once again open and ready to provide services. Preparing for this process requires coordination between the supervi-sors and the staff.
Ready to do more
At the center, we love when the phone rings because we know that with every call we are one step closer to helping a child overcome their speech challenges. With the start of the new school year at Chap-man University, we welcomed back “seasoned” SLP supervisors and Graduate students who will be con-ducting therapy sessions and evaluations. Our children are also happy to come back, as they love their clinicians and know they will receive the help they need to improve their speech.
Backpacks and Supplies
We are thrilled to report that our ongoing contributor has once again committed to providing the Language Center with backpacks and all the age appropriate school supplies required to help kids whose family are unable to afford these expenses. We are certain that the children being helped will benefit greatly from receiving these backpacks full of supplies. Please stand by for pictures of our children receiving their gift next month.
Fun things you can do to help
Reading aloud is a critical tool in language development that takes place even before a child can talk. Hearing sound to word connections and word to picture relationships helps the language and thinking areas of the brain to develop. It also builds a bond of fun, curiosity, and motivation between the child and their parents, grandparents and other reading partners. Children who are read to hear new words and build both the understanding of word meanings and the ability to use words themselves.
You may not see the immediate effect, but research shows that long-term results in language development and reading skills are evidenced.
At the Orange County Childhood Language Center, reading books is an important part of therapy and enjoyment between children and their student clinicians.
Speech & Language Therapy is Crucial
Reading and literacy skills significantly aid in communication. When you can spell, you can communicate freely. Teaching these essential skills at the Center is key to better communication. Appropriate pragmatic/social skills are also a key component to interacting with others in their community and life.
When you have limited, or have no function-al speech, pragmatic language skills are often significantly delayed and disordered. As humans, we communicate with a total communication approach. We communicate via speech, facial expressions, gestures, eye contact, writing, typing and many other forms of communication.
Our speech language pathologists often teach our clients how to communicate in other ways, all to increase confidence and with time, allow our kids to overcome their challenge and graduate from our pro-gram.
Thank you
At the Center we receive donations for sup-plies, water, etc., but you should know that we are also very appreciative of your financial contributions, as it keeps the center open and providing services to our children.
Please remember, our duty is to provide those without a voice, a way to communicate, so please help us bring the gift of voice to our children.
David Frias, 32°
Chairman, President of the Board of Directors
Orange County Childhood Language Center
