Social Distancing and Speech-Language Skills

The end of quarantining and social distancing has been a long awaited event, but it’s potential impact on our little ones may linger on. Incidental communication skills, such as eye-contact while speaking, speech sound and vocabulary exposure, receptive and expressive language development, can all come from day-to-day interactions and social situations. With many children growing up during a time where they weren’t able to socialize or play with others their age, so many of these skills were left underdeveloped. And with many schools returning to on-site learning, some may still require or recommend the use of face masks, which can make understanding facial expressions and cues more difficult for our children. As your child reacclimatizes to social situations and the school setting, they may need to grow and develop further in these areas in order to appropriately socialize with their peers. While social skills other communication abilities can develop in the classroom, a child can also benefit from extra support and in the form of speech therapy! At Magnolia Speech Therapy, we provide speech-language therapy that is tailored to your child’s needs. Whether it’s expressive or receptive language skills, pragmatic or social skills, speech sounds, or other areas of concern, we’ll help your child reach their full potential.