In this self-paced course, you will learn how to support children who are difficult to understand! Together we address strategies for decoding toddler speech and reinforcing speech sound goals in the classroom!

By the end of this course, a provider will be able to:

• Identify typical speech sound development milestones and age-related expectations for children's speech intelligibility.
• Recognize common speech sound error patterns and identify when a child may benefit from a speech-language evaluation.
• Demonstrate at least two strategies to support communication when a child is difficult to understand.
• Implement strategies to model correct speech sound productions and encourage successful communication in the classroom.

 This course is equivalent to 1 clock hour or 1 DSS credit hour.