Understanding Speech Therapy Goals For Non-Verbal Autism Speech pathology addresses the battles faced with communication and language. Thus, speech therapy can help people living with autism improve their non-verbal, verbal, and social communication skills. Lizard is dedicated to assisting your child in developing the skills needed to communicate in a functional way. What are Speech Therapy Goals for Non-verbal Autism? It is vital to understand that each child is different; therefore they need to have different goals set for them. However, in general the six primary goals that will assist with your child’s development are: 1. Developing skills to make it easier to communicate with others If your child faces hardships when learning the foundational skills required communicating due to limited or non-verbal skills, Lizard’s dedicated speech pathologists can help. They’ll assist your child in understanding the abilities of joint attention, listening, engagement, attending to objects, imitation, and initiation, turn taking, anticipation, cause and effect and object permanence.
2. Understanding what is spoken to them