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 09:37:57 · 3 answers · asked by Marianne D 7 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Grade-Schooler
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 09:38:11 · update #1
She's been in therapy for 2 years, so it's not like I'm expecting anything overnight. I still do not understand exactly what is it that they do. How does reading sentences get her to not repeat syllables? Is there something I'm missing? Asking the speech person doesn't so me any good because I don't undesrstand her explanation, that's why I'm asing here. Do any of you understand what it is your children do when they go to speech therapy?
2007-06-04 10:06:36 · update #2
Speech groups in an elementary school setting are often comprised of kids with differing disorders. Group composition is based on level of ability, i.e., at the sentence level vs. the single-word level. No, it is not detrimental to have kids with different speech problems in the same group; they can catch each others' errors and assist with carry-over (explained below).
Reading sentences out loud helps the child to learn how to monitor their speech output, called "self-monitoring". Self-monitoring at the sentence level is the step before self-monitoring at the paragraph level; the next step is self-monitoring in the real world, which is called "carry over".
2007-06-04 11:53:30 · answer #1 · answered by holey moley 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a soon-to-be ten year old that had speech problems that started when he was about four. He would stutter really bad and in Kindergarten he was placed in speech therapy. Sometimes other children would be in the room with him and other times he was by himself. He still goes but it is mainly for the fact that he can't completly understand what he does read now. Speech Therapy is suppose to help a child learn how to speak without bringing any kind of negative attention to it. It isn't suppose to work overnight, with us it has been a few years with some improvement. I think you should ask if she could be seen one-on-one some of the times that she goes to see if there is more improvement. You are the parent so you do have a say in helping her.
Good luck!
2007-06-04 16:50:08 · answer #2 · answered by carissa m 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The threapy can help so they don't make the same problem again it just takes a little for it to work just consult you speech pathogist and ask for advice
2007-06-04 16:47:55 · answer #3 · answered by govtagent_2001 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋