How having speech, language and communication difficulties will affect children’s development varies, because it will depend on the type and severity of the problems and the support a child receives. The short term affects can be:
• Frustration
• Anger
• Lack of confidence
• Finding it difficult to form friendships
• Difficulties in learning, processing and applying new information
• Finding it hard to be understood by others.
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
• Finding it hard to make and maintain relationships
• Feeling isolated and excluded
• Not being able to be independent
• Develop antisocial behaviour
Hope this helps a bit.
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