The Importance Of Alice's Speech

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Alice is three years and three months old and has been at nursery for 10 weeks. The nursery has concerns about Alice’s speech which is mainly single words and 2 word phrases. Because Alice is the youngest of 5 children, it may be possible that Alice’s speech may be down to Alice’s older siblings “talking” for her especially as she is the youngest. This is not uncommon in larger families. It could also go the other way, with alice being very loud as she has to compete with her other siblings for attention from her mother. It may also be that Alice has learning/speech difficulties. I would contact her health visitor for development checks to measure milestones.

Other children and adults find her difficult to understand. This results in Alice …show more content…

For each position in a family, Adler believed that there were positive and negative repercussions, depending on how a person responded to their position in the family. If alices older sibblings were doing everything for her it Adler would believe it was down to her being the youngest. In the home alice could be ginen small tasks to do like helping to tidy up or helping with the shopping by putting things in the …show more content…

Because of her bond with the keyworker, the keyworker could encourage Alice to explore the other areas of the nursery. This may also be down to Alice being separated from her primary carers (mother, grandparents) and feeling more secure in a familiar setting. Alice finds interaction with other children difficult. She finds it difficult to share and be part of a group. This may be lack of confidence and self esteem or it may be the result of having seen her siblings not wanting to share things at home, perhaps because of the lack of toys to go around. Bandura, A. (1977) identified the Social Learning theory that believed people imitate behavior observed in others. Alice would be imitating their aggressive behaviour to protect what she would presume to be her own things. Her siblings changing their behaviour and Alice then copying their new behaviour and also observing other children sharing things in nursery could encourage Alice to share things herself. With the use of a buddy system with one of the more experienced children in nursery could act as a role model for Alice so she could reproduce the actions and behaviour she saw and got appropriate praise for doing so giving her a reason for doing

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