Late Talker Journey's Travel Notes: Child Driven Intervention -- Not Label Driven

In this message, Mary drives home the inadequacy of basing a support plan primarily on a label rather than the child's individuality and their particular pattern of strengths and challenges. For example, there are tens of millions of children in the US, of which roughly 7 to 9% have some kind of communication disorder. And we have roughly half a dozen to a dozen recognized diagnostic labels. A good helper knows that a label will never capture the unique needs of each child. The child should drive the support plan, not the label.