Intervención en un caso con dificultades en el desarrollo y adquisición del lenguaje involucrando activamente a los padres

Background and aim

Language difficulties in young children are becoming more and more frequent. Nowadays, there is a tendency to intervene early, including the child and his or her environment. The aim of this paper is to describe and analyse the development of the speech therapy intervention carried out with a child with language acquisition difficulties and his parents.

Method

Qualitative methodology to analyse the intervention through tasks given to the parents. For eight weeks, the parents recorded the frequency and degree of difficulty in carrying out the tasks and the child's linguistic evolution.

Results

Parents are consistent in performing the tasks, rating them as progressively easier. In addition, the child's linguistic evolution is favourable.

Conclusions

When the intervention actively involves the parents, the development of the intervention, the generalisation of the work in the child's environment and the child's linguistic development can be favoured.