The Magic Hat: A tool for intervention on language disorders

Abstract

Language disorders are connected with a high risk of learning difficulties and may compromise the school and social integration of the affected children. When speech is not constituted as a way of expressive language, it becomes very important to provide the child with an early therapeutic intervention. For this purpose was created a pedagogic and ludic instrument in the field of speech therapy conjointly, in the five branches of speech, easily comprehended by children, supporting their learning. The instrument of gradual intervention entitled “The Magic Hat” is personified as a cat with a hat anatomically compartmentalized in drawers, symbolizing the five branches of language, intended for children aged 5-8 years. The instrument maybe used in different ways, to archive the therapy goals that the therapist has with a particular child. The portability of the macromodel created is a limitation of this instrument and its empirical lead is the fact that it includes all language areas and it is very easy to be implemented in limited therapeutic settings