LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
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Language Development Interview The purpose of this interview is to determine what level of knowledge I have when it comes to language acquisition. In this paper, I will answer five interview questions to demonstrate my knowledge for a future professional role as an elementary school teacher. I will give my answers and then analyze them according to what I have learned from the course text and other sources in regards to language development in small children. Question One: Interviewer: “What experience do you have working with children with communication disorders?” Amy Martinez: “I have personal experience in that I have a son who has Autism Spectrum Disorder with moderate speech delay. I noticed my son was not using as much language as other children his age when he was 2 years old. He developed his own form of babble at around one year of age, but he never progressed past that. At my son’s fifteen month check up the pediatrician asked me how many words he was able to say and my answer was 2 or 3, to which the doctor expressed some concern but explained that some children develop language at a slower rate than their peers and that we would follow up at his next visit to see if there was any progress. Needless to say, my son’s language usage did not progress by the time he turned two, so I had him evaluated by Early Childhood Intervention, and they determined that there was speech delay due to the fact that he had lost over 40% of his hearing at an early age. They also noted that the sounds of his voice were very different and tingey. My son had to have implants to help him hear better, and we began speech