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Ég hef ekki tíma til að snara henni yfir á okkar ástkæra ylhýra, núna.
Sagan birtist á heimasíðu Communication Trust.

Anna's story - ‘She’ll develop at her own rate’ / is anyone listening?
Anna’s mother says: ‘Anna was a difficult baby always crying and difficult to settle. She was my first baby and I didn’t always know if I was doing everything right. By18 months I felt there was something wrong but I didn’t know what. She had a few words – that seemed OK. But, she didn’t seem to play well, tended to break her toys and never spent any time on any one thing.
When Anna started at a pre-school playgroup, her mother noticed that Anna’s interaction with other children was poor, but pre-school staff insisted everything was fine and that Anna would ‘develop at her own rate.’ Anna’s mother was convinced.
Anna then started at school. The teacher was not happy with Anna’s behaviour and upset her mother by suggesting poor parenting. Anna’s mother began to notice that her daughter mixed up words and misunderstood some things, but she did not know what to do.
The school could barely cope with her behaviour and insisted that she spent lunchtimes at home with her mother. Anna began to stammer and her mother’s friend, who was a health visitor, suggested a self referral to the Speech and Language Therapy Service. At the age of 5 Anna was assessed and was diagnosed with a specific language impairment.
Anna’s SLCN were so severe that she was given a statement of special educational needs and received teaching assistant time in school. The teaching assistant had experience in specific language impairment and this was really helpful.Anna now has improved confidence and self-esteem and her mainstream school has become more understanding. She still has a significant speech and language problem and her mother is concerned about her transition to secondary school.