واقع مشاركة الوالدين في برامج التدخل اللغوي المبكر للأطفال من ذوي التأخر اللغوي من وجهة نظر معالجي النطق و اللغة

الملخص EN

The study aimed at identifying the participation of parents in early language intervention programs for children with language delays from the perspective of speech and language therapists.

To achieve the goal of the study, the researcher used the descriptive method and developed the study tool; namely, a questionnaire with (43) phrases covering four topics.

The sample of the study consisted of (237) speech and language therapists at the level of the regions of Saudi Arabia.

The study reached the following results:  The most prominent feature of parents’ participation was the “parents’ offer of options to their children while presenting items to them”, and the least common feature of parents’ participation from the therapist's point of view was “parental keenness to carry out their child's weekly assessment”.

 The main benefit of parents’ participation was expressed in the following phrase, “parents’ participation in early language intervention program contributes to the improvement of the child's expressive language”, while the phrase, “parents’ participation in early language intervention program helps reduce child anxiety and fear of communicating with others” came last according to the therapists.

 The most prominent barrier to parents’ participation was expressed in the following statement, “parents believe that the therapist is directly responsible for the child's language development”, while “therapists have low ability to deal effectively with parents as an important partner in early language intervention programs” was one of the least ranked statements from the perspective of therapists.

 For effective strategies that speech and language therapists can use to develop parents’ participation in early language intervention programs for children with language delays, the highest-level phrase was “therapists educate parents about methods and tools for home training,” while “training sessions with the child are documented by the means of video recording for the benefit of the parents” came at the bottom of the list from the point of view of the therapists