Speech Language

Speech Language

Can any speech language clinicians tell me if my child is being cheated in his services?

My son receives 30 minutes of speech a week. He has been working with the sp- sound for two months. That has been the only sound. Is this normal?

Well, my answer would depend on what your child's problems are, how old he is and what the goals are.

If you have a nonverbal autistic child who's half way through middle school and his goal is functional speech, I'd say you were being cheated.

If you have a child who's in the early part of elementary education, has a slight lisp and his only goals are to achieve phonetic blends, then I'd say it's better.

There really isn't enough information. If you have concerns, you certainly have the right, both legal and ethical to ask the speech pathologist what her plan is. You have the right to request another speech path (which I did do and got, for my child in school). There are a dozen ways to teach language, and it's possible that this speech path doesn't have the key to help your child.

Call an IEP meeting at the very least, and ask what the time line looks like, what the plan is for teaching speech, and why it isn't happening.

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