LAHEY'S METHOD AS AN EFFECTIVE TOOL TO EVALUATE THE COMMUNICATION OF CHILDREN AT RISK IN EARLY AGE

Abstract

The assessment of early childhood children at risk or children with developmental language disorder in young pre-school age may be carried out in several ways. In the study, we will introduce one of them, namely the sociolinguistic approach represented by the model of Margaret Lahey. The low-structured model is suitable for describing the strengths and weaknesses of the child at an early age, even if the child is still not verbal. The model is time consuming, but very precise and realistically complex. His great advantages include, in particular, the logical formulation of therapy objectives of language competence in the proximity child's development zone. That is why the model of M. Laheyova is one of the modern and used approaches in speech-language assessment in several countries of the world.

Keywords

• developmental language disorder
• assessment
• lahey method
• language skills
• children at risk