Autism, hearing impairment, speech therapy, communications

Hearing impairment or deafness is a full or partial decrease in the ability to detect or understand sounds. Autism is an abnormal absorption with the self; marked by communication disorders and short attention span and inability to treat others as people. It is really fortunate that none of my grandchildren suffered from such disabilities. However, one of your cousin is not so fortunate, but it was fortunate it was spotted early and her parent took the trouble to travel great distance to get help for her daughter.

The ability to communicate well with others is crucial for any child's well being and success. Any child that is unfortunate to be smitten by either autism or hearing impairment will have difficulties in communicating with people around them. It is important that they be detected early so that remedial steps be taken.

It is great that now we have the Internet which now have enabled the possibility of online speech and language therapists called Speech Quest who have developed a three steps way for parents to do the following online without leaving their home:

1. complete a questionaire


2. assessment


3. plan activities

Speech Quest is not a charity, but if you have a child and you want to use their service and you respond before 31^st March 2010, they are offering a discount of 20%. Use the coupon code BVT1015.