Speech Therapy.. Tips?
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Speech Therapy.. Tips?
| Mon, 03-26-2012 - 1:29pm |
Unrelated to my 7th grader, But my 3rd grader has had speech articulation issues since he started school, He is 9 now and he's in the third grade.
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The speech therapist worked with her for just a few months and came up with ways to help her understand how to form the proper sounds - stuff I would never know - plus she sent home activities that we can do together at home. She still reverts to this "lazy r" sound, but we're supposed to stop her, say it together, and move on. It takes practice!
He is not getting speech therapy through school?
“Clearly," said Arthur,"you're an idiot- but you're our kind of idiot. Come on.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
If you just want some lists of words or such, you can also call and ask for a meeting with the therapist. She/he should be able to copy and give you stuff for him to work on at home. Tell her/him that is what you would rather do than to have your child miss school time, and they will probably be happy to do so.
DS was in speech from kindy through part of 2nd grade. He was born with a cleft so we always knew speech was probably going to be an issue. He was ok until 4 and he developed nasal speech. Its the defect his palate didn't function properly. In his case it could only be corrected by surgery which we finally did in the first grade but speech path at school picked up him to keep him on her radar. The surgery fixed most of the problem she worked with him on the rest. Now our school approaches things different. More then half his kindy class saw speech path at one point or another in kindy and first grade some to work on normal childhood speech issues others are ESL or come from homes that while they learned english others in the house don't speek it and she works on correcting issues that can arise from that. We are a highly diverse community and actually had a whole kindy class of ESL kids. They also take a team teacher approach so speech path actually teaches phonics in the younger grades. For this reason Liam was dropped in 2nd grade she felt his issues were minor enough she would work with him there because he does get pulled from class so much. Now his cleft team not too happy with this but learning its very hard to get a service reinstated especially when the speech path feels he is fine. Now should add speech path on cleft time very pleased and he tested at 1% below normal speech, its the surgeon that did the surgery that feels he'd like better but learned long ago its a dr perfection thing so we are fine with his speech, but like I said its hard to get them back in and it gets harder sometimes in some districts to get the services after certain ages.So you might find that at school. But many people don't realize their insurance may cover private speech. Yah its easy and convient and cheaper to do it at school but its also time pulled from class and also that can cause attention. Just something to think of...
No they do not relate speech articulation issues to whether it effects their school work.
“Clearly," said Arthur,"you're an idiot- but you're our kind of idiot. Come on.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief