I have a 10 year old who is perfectly confident in everyway, but has a speech disfluency where she repeats syllables in about every other sentence or so. Usually she doesn't even notice she's doing it. She goes to speech therapy and I believe it's helped somewhat but I don't understant how it helps. I've asked and I still don't understand. She does the therapy at school and I just found out that she goes with other children who have different speech issues than her (these children are also very disruptive in a normal classroom setting). My child does not have any confidence issues nor does she suffer any stigma for going to speech during school. When kids find out she goes to speech they usually don't understand why she goes. We have her IEP meeting today and I'm just wondering if anyone can explain to me how therapy is supposed to help and if it's detrimental to have children with different speech issues in the same session. Thank you!
2007-06-04 05:15:01 · 2 answers · asked by Marianne D 7 in Education & Reference ➔ Special Education
What I mean by 'how is therapy supposed to help'... what do they do and how does it correct the symptoms of her disfluency? I think I just don't understand the way the therapist has explained it and perhaps someone here can explain it in a way that I will understand.
2007-06-04 05:18:05 · update #1
Group therapy can be beneficial as it gives all children peers that can make a sound they are working on. An example is my 5th grader just graduated from services at school her issue was the /r/ sound, but other kids in there had issues with the /s/ sound so they would be able to hear each other make the sound correctly and try to imitate.
If you dont understand what she is getting then keep making them explain until you do. Repeat back how you understand it and let them clarify. Speech does take a while to see carryover into everyday speech. My daughter was in for 3 yrs to get her /r/ sound correct.
2007-06-04 15:24:25 · answer #1 · answered by chellyk 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am 33 yrs old I was born with mild cerebral palsy. It affects the way I walk, and talk. Basically I studder. When I was in school I was in speech thearapy.
There's a lot of techniques they use to help. With me It was talking and reading out-loud alot and using what they called slow easy speech.
I had to talk really slow, and draw out every sylible. It helps me alot.
2007-06-04 20:24:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋