Explain The Effects Of Communication Difficulties On Children And Young People

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Speech, language and communication difficulties can have a lasting effect on children and young people lives leading into their futures. For a small percentage of children and young people their disability cannot be prevented and they are usually born with a condition that makes this aspect a daily struggle for them, but early intervention is just as important for those individuals with less severe difficulties to help give a child the best possible support that they need to exceed and be able to communicate effectively. The impact of these difficulties will vary according to the severity of the problem for each individual, the support the child or young person may receive and at what level and the child’s confidence.

The short-term affects can be:
• Frustration/Anger
• Lack of confidence/low self-esteem
• Finding it difficult to form and keep friendships
• Difficulties in learning, processing new information
• Finding it hard to be understood by others around you.

The longer-term effects of having speech, language and communication difficulties is hard to predict but generally these can be:
• Low self-esteem
• Reduced life chances and risks
• Finding it hard to make and maintain relationships
• Feeling isolated and excluded by others
• Not being able to be independent
• Develop antisocial behaviour
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They could then become frustrated and show negative behaviour towards others because they cannot communicate effectively. The children or young person may begin to show social problems because they may struggle and find it hard to communicate with their peers and their peers may also find it hard to understand them and hat they are trying to convey, which could leave the child or young person feeling upset and cause a low self-esteem and lack of confidence. Not being able