Critical Source Argument
I am warning you right now this is a dense post
Above is the link to a scientific article from the American Journal of Speech and Language Pathology. It poses the argument how many preschool children are correctly defined as having speech problems and how many of them should actually see a speech-language pathologist.
The conclusion stated is most children with a SSD have not seen a SLP, but would benefit from having one.
I agree with the professionals's argument. I believe most children who should see a SLP have not yet. The professionals make a strong argument by conducting and explaining a logical and thorough study. There is evidence of logos used in their entire article.
A question posed is do parents/teachers correctly diagnose children with a SSD. The study shows that fairly often they do. I agree with this mainly because it is hard to disagree with the numbers. There are a few aspects that deserved to be brought up however. The first being some parents can be hypercritical of their children. Being self conscious of their children's problems often leads to over thinking a typical trait for a child. Also, being rather protective can lead to worrying about a non-problem. The second being the parents who their child is perfect to them. These parents often over look issues like a SSD (I'm not judging these parents though). Only 41/109 children who have parents who showed concern about their speech saw a SLP. Of these children, many of them expressed concern about their speech (the poor things). Many of them have such trouble with speech they would be unintelligible to strangers (this article just makes me want to go work right now). Because of this it is important to have children professionally diagnosed.
The professionals also compared children who had seen a SLP to those who had not. They questioned which would have more difficulties with speech. I think this comparison was probably not entirely fair. While done correctly and logically, all children (especially at that age) are going to be super different. The results of the study showed that children who had seen a SLP had a lower PCC. in other words were worse at speech then the rest (my heart goes out).
Most arguments online are for children seeing speech paths. In fact it was actually a challange to find an article i disagreed with. This made me super happy because I can see the positive shift toward speech.
Works Cited
Mcleod, Sherryann. "Speech Sound Disorders in a Community Study of Preschool Children." American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 22 (2013): 503-22. Print.
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