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  • 1.  non sequitur and disjointed speech patterns

    Posted 12-04-2019 09:24 PM
    Greetings. I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with 4 year old students who show an atypically high amount of non-sequiturs in their speech. For example, I might ask this student if they want to take a turn on the climber and they will respond with something like "The bunny. It got me!". There are certainly times where they are able to participate in a conversation and stay within the context. Yet there are many times where the direction and path of their end of the conversation seem disjointed and totally from left field.

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    James Mitchell
    Teacher
    Silver Spring Nursery School
    Takoma Park MD
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  • 2.  RE: non sequitur and disjointed speech patterns

    Posted 12-10-2019 10:35 AM
    Thanks for this James - we have this experience in our PreK classroom ourselves. In our case, the child learned English around the age of 2, so we're not sure if there's a connection there. We do find that we can sometimes find the connection to the child's non-sequiturs, but not always. We are interested in other people's insights, if there are any out there!

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    Liz Buchan
    Head of Lower School
    Tower School
    Marblehead MA
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