The purpose of this study is to examine how two educators at a preschool that is located in a neighborhood south of Stockholm works with TAKK with children who has Down syndrome in a language promotion purposes. The aim is also to investigate what teachers think about using TAKK with children without special needs and children with Down syndrome. In this study, I used qualitative research methods. I've used both observations and interviews to get answers to my questions. The theories which I have used in this thesis is, socio-cultural perspective, including integration and segregated integration. In order to find out how the educators work with TAKK I have asked these questions: How do the educators work with TAKK with children with Down syndrome from a language development perspective? What do the educators express about using TAKK with children without special needs and with children who has Down syndrome? My conclusions to these questions are that the literatures I have read in many ways are consistent with how they work. They told me, among other things, that the use of TAKK is good for both the children with and without Down syndrome. Regarding to how they use TAKK in their everyday work I could see that they used TAKK on a daily basis in the routines at the preschool.

Syftet med den här studien är att få djupare kunskap om förskolans arbete med språkligt sårbara barn och hur de kan upptäckas i tidig ålder. Genom intervjuer med specialpedagoger och legitimerade förskollärare har jag besvarat frågorna om vilka möjligheter förskollärare har att upptäcka språkstörning, hur förskollärare arbetar och kan arbeta med barn i språklig sårbarhet, samt på vilket sätt specialpedagoger och förskollärare kan samarbeta för att främja språkutvecklingen hos barnen. I studien beskrivs tidigare forskning om barns tidiga språkutveckling och vad som kännetecknar språkstörning, samt hur forskare anser att förskollärare bör arbeta med barn för att främja språkutveckling. Resultatet visade att det fanns en stor medvetenhet bland pedagogerna ute på förskolorna där intervjuerna genomfördes och att arbeta med språk och kommunikation var hos de flesta ett prioriterat mål i verksamheten. Specialpedagogerna framhåller den medvetna närvaron hos förskollärare för att vara ett stöd i den språkliga utvecklingen hos barnen, samt att ha möjlighet att upptäcka de barn som befinner sig i språklig sårbarhet där det kan handla om språkstörning. I undersökningen framkom att tid, kunskap, lyhördhet, närvaro, tillgång till specialpedagog och ett medvetet förhållningssätt utgör de förutsättningar som förskollärare behöver för att upptäcka barn med språkstörning. / The purpose of this study is to gain in-depth knowledge about preschool work with children in linguistic vulnerability and how they can be discovered at an early age. Through interviews with special educators and legitimate preschool teachers, I have answered the questions about what possibilities preschool teachers have to detect language disorder, how preschool teachers work and can work with children in linguistic vulnerability, and how special educators and preschool teachers can collaborate to promote language development in the children. The study describes previous research on children's early language development and what characterize developmental language disorders, as well as how researchers think preschool teachers should work with children to promote language development. The result showed that there was a high level of awareness among the educators at the preschools where the interviews were conducted, and working with language and communication was at most a priority objective in the preschool. Special educators emphasize the conscious presence of preschool teachers to be a support in the linguistic development of the children, as well as being able to discover the children who are in linguistic vulnerability where language disturbance is concerned. The study found that time, knowledge, responsiveness, attendance, access to a special educator and a conscious attitude constitute the prerequisites for pre-school teachers to detect children with language disabilities.