Children’s Language and Speech Impairments

Children’s Language and Speech Impairments

Nereida Jimenez

Professor Delores Harrell

PS345-02: Language and Speech Developments and Disorders

Kaplan University

November 30, 2011

Children’s Language and Speech Impairments

What happens when a family is in need and not knowing where to bring their children for help? For these specific reasons is why we have special education or related services such as my friend name Mrs. Ellen Campion, who has been working for 15 years, as the school district Social Worker for the Ossining High School, in New York. However, Mrs. Campion, was chosen for this interview due to her professionalism and the love with working with children regardless the circumstances or conditions. As well as the support of empowering students, families, and school personnel of any available opportunities and resources that can reach each child’s potential, by working along with, other related services such as counselors and psychologists, that are also providing some similar services as the Social Worker.

Social Worker is a profession that is constantly dealing with children’s peer pressure and the desire to help families, by helping them cope with their emotional, behavioral and academicals issues that can also delay children’s everyday life skills. Otherwise, Mrs. Ellen Campion is dealing directly with children with such problems as misbehavior, teenage pregnancy, drug and alcohol problems as well as advising teachers how to cope with difficult students, in which this is just another typical day of her work, along with making sure that the eligibility criteria is clarified by the Individualized Education Program Team (IEP), in making sure that the child is in need of special education and other types of related services (Freiberg & Wicklund, 2003).

In addition, she is dealing with all different types of capabilities such as cognitive disabilities (CD), visual impairments (VI), hearing impairments (HI), speech and language impairments...