Children's Communication Skills
Welcome to the prevention committee page where you will find information about children's communication skills.
A poster is available describing the acquisition of receptive and expressive language skills. The poster is available in the following languages: Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, German, Greek, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Welsh. 88
Leaflets If you are interested in how to facilitate your child's language development, leaflets are available for the different stages as outlined below: 0 - 12 months 1 - 2 years 2 - 3 years 3 - 4 years You will find the leaflets, in several languages, on the following page 88
Questionnaire A language development questionnaire has been designed to help you discover language delays as soon as possible. The questionnaire is available in several languages : 88
Further information:
Definition of PreventionThe committee started by adopting the definition of prevention drawn up by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 1948. The WHO identifies three successive stages covering the means to be set up to prevent pathologies, therapy and, if possible, the social reintegration of patients: Primary prevention: This stage of prevention covers all activities designed to ‘reduce’ the instances of an illness in a population and thus to reduce, as far as possible, the risk of new cases appearing; in speech and language therapy this mainly covers information and health education of a population, as well as training all those who have a role to play with the population in question; Secondary prevention: This covers activities aimed at `reducing the prevalence of an illness in a population and thus to reduce its duration’; in speech and language therapy this mainly concerns identification and early screening; Tertiary prevention: This aims ‘to reduce the incidence of chronic incapacity or recurrences in a population, and thus to reduce the functional consequences of an illness’; in speech and language therapy , this relates to care provided, i.e. therapy, various rehabilitation techniques and intervention designed to assist the patient to return to educational, family, professional, social and cultural life. 5
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