Wspieranie rodziców we wczesnym wspomaganiu rozwoju umiejętności komunikacyjnych ich dziecka

Abstract

Supporting parents in developing their child’s ability to communicate stems directly from the fact that communication skills are developed in the family. Leaving a parent behind the door of a speech therapist’s office, so common in the practice of specialists from the field of augmentative communication, makes it impossible to create a communication system between a child and the parents. The main role of a therapist is to identify the existing system of communication between a child and the parents and to develop it in a way that is most beneficial for all of them. The process is facilitated by the creation of situations in which the parent can observe the therapist using new strategies in the dialogue with a child so that the parent can experience new communicative situations with the help of the therapist and practically learn to communicate with his or her own child using the new methods. It is necessary and extremely important to support the parents in inculcating the new communication strategies in the family’s everyday life. The parents and the therapist form a team during the entire process of creating a system of communication with a child.