The Crazy Pre-K Classroom

  As a Mom of 3 (18,13,5) and as a Kindergarten teacher I have seen first hand the successes and failures that children experience based on their language development in early childhood. My oldest son was diagnosed at 3 with expressive and receptive language disorders, he spent over a year 3x per week in expressive language disorder treatment and receptive language disorder therapy to build his language skills. Receptive language disorder is the inability to keep words that you have heard and expressive language disorder is the inability to retrieve and say those words. You can see where we had a big problem on our hands. Not only could Conner not retain words but he also could not find them in his brain to say them. If you think of the brain like a filing cabinet it is as if his words were filed in the wrong drawer and were lost when needed. For Conner there was no specific language, objects were described as "things" and this often lead to frustration. Conner coul...