This essay covers the subject of children with language disorders. We are two educators writing an experience-based essay on our preschool experiences and the literature with the subject of speaking disorders and verbal development. The main focus of this essay is how educators can recognize and stimulate children with language disorder. The starting point in the essay is two experience-based events from preschool which tells of two different boys, aged three and four. Both boys have some kind of verbal disorder and one of them also has Down´s syndrome. With support from the literature, this essay discusses different types of speaking disorders and how these can affect literacy development of children starting school. We clarify the meaning of the terms primary and secondary speech disorders. Furthermore, we discuss the importance of TAKK (Tecken som Alternativ Kompletterande Kommunikation, Eng. Signing as Alternative Complementary Communication) as a supportive tool for the development of one’s own language, and highlight other language stimulating activities; singing, storytelling and oral exercises. Finally, this essay stresses the importance of information from the parents of children with a speech disorder being is shared with the school, as this information is essential for a continued development of the child’s learning of speaking and reading. / Detta är en essä som handlar om barn med språkstörning. Vi är två pedagoger som skriver en erfarenhetsbaserad essä utifrån vår erfarenhet från förskolan samt med hjälp av litteratur om språkstörning och språkutveckling. Essän tar upp hur pedagoger kan uppmärksamma och stimulera barn med språkstörning. Utgångspunkten i essän är två erfarenhetsbaserade händelser från förskolan som berättar om två olika pojkar i åldern tre och fyra år. Båda pojkarna har någon form av språkstörning varav den ena pojken har Downs syndrom. Med litteraturens hjälp tar vi upp olika typer av språkstörning och hur det bland annat kan påverka läs- och skrivutvecklingen vid skolstart. Vi klargör innebörden av begreppen primär och sekundär språkstörning. För att hjälpa barn med språkstörning tar vi upp hur viktigt TAKK (Tecken som Alternativ Kompletterande Kommunikation) är som stöd för att kunna utveckla det egna språket. Några andra språkstimulerande aktiviteter som lyfts fram i essän är musik, sagoläsning och mungymnastik. Slutligen tar essän upp pedagogens uppdrag att förmedla föräldrar till barn med språkstörning vikten av att information om barnets språkstörning lämnas över till skolan. Denna information är viktig för en fortsatt utveckling av barnets läs- och skrivinlärning.

My diploma work applies to progress of communication with a child with partial deafness at an early age. Theoretical part in its first chapter applies with the problém of hearing disability and basic subjectś terminology. Second chapter deal with communication of hearing-impaired children and shows partial communication systems. Third chapter introduces consulting institutions, which are concerned to hearing impairment. Practical part is focused to one concrete longitudinal study of a child with difficult hearing impairment. The study consist of observation the speech development and sign language of this child in his early age. Part of this work are also flow charts and graphs where you can observe the development of the vocabulary signs and spoken words. From these resource materials we can see very well the boyś development in the whole last year, where prevail spoken words, which he refills with sign Czech language, which helps to his parents to get the feedback and check out boyś understanding, but also in the communication in time, when the boy cannot have any compensatory aid. Her eis the confirmation of suitability of combining signs with spoken words for quick and general childś development in the early age. KEY WORDS Sense of hearing Hearing compensation Communication of hearing-impaired...