SALT appointment was a nightmare :-(

[mosschops30]

Ds2 is 2.4, at the moment he can say yes, no, dad, mum and peppa.

He had his 2nd SALT session yesterday, last one was in October when ge wasnt saying anything.
Anyway she got all the toys out and started repeating words, he is so stubborn that if you do that he just ignores you and does sonething else, so she ended up stopping him from playing with things, like cars down a ramp, she would put her hand across saying 'ready, steady' then waiting fir him to say go which he wouldnt, he just got upset and frustrated because he couldnt play.
Same happened with the jigsaw, he ended up splitting his lip trying to pull the pieces off her

this went on for an hour, i was traumatised by the end of it. She said that the things that normally work with children do not work with little mosschops! She now want him to have one to one weekly sessions but that wont be for another 3 months

My oldest dd was like this. I can measure her speech exactly because at 2.75 when her sister was born she was still a very, very basic sentences and rarely used them. The day after dd2 was born I went to get her up and she stood up in her cot and said 'go find baby' - meaning she wanted to find her sister and see her again. It was very sweet She is now 14, incredibly articulate and on the G&T register. It seems incredible she used to barely talk. I'm quite sure that now we would be offered SALT but that didn't seem to be on the agenda then and to be fair she didn't need it.

Doesn't sound like a very good salt to me. Surely they should find something tgat engages them?

Dd has her first appt next month should be interesting. She wasn't bothered about half of tge hearing test games.

Agree that you need to find a different SALT. This is one of the things my paediatrician told me, to find a SALT that ds was very comfortable with. And she also told me to always defend ds and to build up his confidence as much as I can.

I haven't read all the replies so this could be redundant but I think it will depend on whether there are any other concerns about from language. If all else (shared attention, play skills, understanding) are age appropriate then it could just have been a bad day and you shouldn't read too much into it. If however (and I'm stressing if) there are actual difficulties with engagement, then a SALT will not usually be the best person to address this issue - I realise this may sound strange but that has been my experience.