does your child see a speech pathologist?

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Mine does and I wonder if others out there sit in the sessions with the child or not. Also, whether you constantly talk to the pathologist or not.

In a way, I have seen some parents who have their kids in therapy through the schools and aren't really there when the pathologist is with their child...and I know from my point of view, because I am there the entire hour, and we talk constantly, she has helped me greatly in dealing with my son and seeing things that I couldn't see before.

Example...he feel and cut his chin two days ago...yesterday while giving him a bath, I told him "don't get your chin wet"...so what did he do? He sprayed his face with the shower hose...
When I told the speech therapist, she worked with him a bit and said to me..."he does NOT understand the word DON'T..." To him, he doesn't hear that or doesn't understand it, so he just really heard "get your chin wet!" Make sure that next time you say "NO, DO NOT get your chin wet..." and see if that works...otherwise, show him a pic of what you DON'T want him to do...he's not trying to defy you, he doesn't understand what you just said...

Needless to say, I felt horrible, but today our day has been so much better because of it...Everyday that I have some type of behavior issue with him, I ask the pathologist and she is awesome in helping me figure out what he does and does not understand, etc...it's made our life much easier.

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kids delayed in speech don't seem to understand negatives. Even now that my son intellectually understands "don't", he still doesn't seem to act on it. Keeping it positive works better. It's very, very hard to remember. Apparently, this is a truism for all kids. "Don't" and the creation of taboos makes those things too irresistible.

"Don't get your chin wet!"= "Keep your chin dry!"

"Don't shout in the house!"= "Use an inside voice, please"

"Don't touch your sister!"="Keep your hands to yourself"

As for the original question. No, I don't sit in with my son because he gets very brief pullout services at school. In Kindergarten he didn't receive any pullout services but received regular assessments. The structure of the Kindergarten class, along with his 1-1 aide, provided a better speech-learning environment than pulling out would.


When I get the order form printed, I'm going to order the texts from Michell Garcia Winner's books. She is an SLP who has amazing books for teaching pragmatic skills and language. She self-publishes and teaches workshops. I couldn't possibly afford her services. http://www.socialthinking.com

no.

It was suggest that I may want to look into some speech therapy for language pragmatics.

yes, my oldest sees a speech therapist at school. And my youngest is currently being evaulated. We are looking into seeing one privately for both of them in the summer once school is out. They both are very "hypernasal" and of course social speech and pragmatics is an issue.

All three of my children have been in speach therapy since they were a year old. I have found that you really need to be a very active part of their therapy, you have to be involved and be able do the therapy 7 days a week. It is a lot of work, but in the end it is so worth it.

I'm an older Aspie with memories of going to speech pathology. My mother may have joined me on the first few sessions, but most of them I went to alone. I think her role in my therapy was very behind-the-scenes, and I think that led to a strong degree of independence on my part. I can more or less live independently now, and I am forever grateful for that.

So my suggestion is to let the child go by himself, especially an older one. He'll thank you when he gets older.

My son is 5/ non verbal autistic. Hes been going to speech and OT since he was 2. He got diag at 2 1/2. I have never sat in on a session, but I have been called in maybe 8-10 times since the beginning to see how he is doing. They also taught me how to do his oral exercises. I talk with them after every session for 2-5 minutes about how his session was, and to ask any questions I may have. He goes 4x a week too.

My daughter is 32 months & has just started seeing a speech pathologist. We will see her infrequentley & she will give us homework to work on in between visits. Therefore I will be present.

I'm sure when she is older she will go in by herself, that is what her 5 year old brother does.

My daughter is 30 months old, and has begun speech therapy and OT, she has 4 visits per month, and she is not verbal.She only babbles and is very happy all the time, I wonder if she is going to be an non verbal autistic, Her diagnose is High function autism, her therapist seems very happy with her improvement of eye contact, but I wish to hear her say"mommy" for the first time, she can say about 6 words that are understandable, but will she be able to talk? how long does it take? Should I pay for private therapies to make her advance, or I'm I expecting too much too soon ?

My son, who just got his IEP will have 60 minutes of speech each week. He'll have a half hour by himself and a half hour with a group to work on social conversation skills and pragmatic speech. I feel really fortunate to have this available for him at school.

Susan

My youngest (4) did just start, he got his evaluation and qualified easily. We are doing his privately since school refuses to acknowledge he has a problem. He sees someone once a week now.