Question
The child has already started elementary school, but their verbal expression is weak. Parents are worried that it will affect their future development and ask how to help their child improve their verbal and linguistic abilities.
Answer
Treatment for Expressive Language Disorders: ① Speech Therapy: Through enhanced learning of sounds, vocabulary, and sentence structures, strengthen the use of common phrases. ② Psychotherapy: When expressive language disorders lead to behavioral and emotional disorders, psychotherapy can be used. However, psychotherapy is usually not used to treat language disorders themselves. ③ Psychological counseling for the parents of the child: This can increase the parents’ identification with their child’s disease and reduce the stress they feel due to their child’s speech impairment!