What is your child learning in speech therapy?

[pomegranate1975]

My nearly four old is learning :

• what belongs in the kitchen, living room, and bathroom.

What is your child learning in speech therapy?

What is your child learning in speech therapy?

I don't have a child in speech therapy, but when I was a TA in an infant school, a child I worked with (probably Yr1 or 2 - can't remembe) did have speech problems, and a therapist came into school to work with different children.

So that I knew how to support this child in class, I asked to sit-in on the therapy session. To my surprise, the child was given a series of four cards, that had to be sequenced into the correct order. One set (that I could hardly do myself, because I didn't know what the man in a sort of 'page boy' suit was) turned out to be a pizza delivery service!

Another set was a bird building its nest, and laying eggs etc. Now for a 6 year old, that didn't have much to do with speech therapy in my view, and entirely relied on the child having some knowledge of natural history, and nest building!

So I'm afraid this speech therapist, who I had assume was a real expert in her field, went right down in my estimation.

So, are you finding this talking about the different rooms, rather strange and unexpected? It seems therapists might be more concerned with the MENTAL processes, rather than the VOCAL aspects of the condition.

(Sorry - that's probably no help to you at all; but do have a Happy Christmas!)

Mostly how to listen, main thing they learnt when they did SLT, actually! What speech problems does your child have, OP?

We were given lists of words for the dds to practice which we did by playing games

Speech and language therapists have this title as they assess and diagnose difficulties with both speech (the sounds used in words) and language ( the structure and use if language such as using sentences, grammar, understanding what has been said to you, using language appropriately in a social environment). They aldo work with stammering, voice and swallowing, sometimes attention and listening and memory. Sequencing of language is vital to be able to plan and hold conversations so ferguson that is likely to be why these were given.

Lots of people assume they just work on speech but this is not the case. OP it sounds like your dc has a language difficulty and they are working on categorisation to help build knowledge and use of words and to help build an organised system in the brain so the language is found easily when the child needs it.

If you are unsure why certain activities are being carried out just ask the therapist to explain (although they should have done already) and there will be reasoning behind it.

mini our speech therapist was excellent. DD had severe speech issues but advanced language skills was very amusing in many ways as she chattered away and played beautiful and appropriate game with the toys we just couldn't really understand the individual words when not used in context.

Thankfully she was a success story once we sorted out her hearing

Back in the day ( It was 3 years ago)
boy learnt from worksheets that went like this....
Farhid likes football - trace the lines to Farhids footballs. Colour in Farhids football gloves, football shorts, football gloves etc etc.

Boy was supposed to say f words and b words as we did the worksheet. Then we had f word lotto and b word bingo and building lego, one instruction at a time after saying an f word, or doing a jigsaw one piece at a time after saying a b word.

One of my most endearing memories of those days was having to take a detour to avoid the centre of the village at 3.30pm. Boy had JUST figured out how to say the g sound and was sat on the back of my bike singing "bugger bugger bugger" very loudly. and I didn't want to stop him as it had taken weeks to get him to sound g spontaneously.

I have a 4 year old who does speech therapy nhs and private. nhs is group therapy so does a lot of turn taking and following routines and they were also doing themed vocabulary every week and some pecs. private is more speech sounds based he does word and sound repetition, playing games etc while he does it. Guess it will depend on the exact nature of the problems what work they will get them to do

pomegranate1975 we worked really hard with DS categorising nouns due to his difficulty with word recall, he knew the word but couldn't remember it. The more you describe the object the easier it gets to then recall its name . lets say you want to be able to remember the word chair: made of wood, four legs, belongs to te dining room, used to sit on, it's heavy, big etc.
Odd one out games with pictures of objects or actions are very good for this too, for example ,the hammer doesn't belong to the fruit and veg because you can't eat it and it's a tool...

We worked with DS for quite some time how to retell a story so that is where the sequencing cards come in handy. You want a beginning, development and conclusion in a story. He would start telling you a story starting from any point of the sequence, jumping backwards and forwards, a mess really...he's better now but he still needs to work on this.

We are working now with keeping on topic without going off a tangent and secondly taking turns to encourage him to have conversations and not just monologues.
His pronunciation is not great even though he is almost 7 so I guess we will be working with this issue soon but when we first started speech therapy 4 years ago his pronunciation was the least of his problems.

My 3.5 year old is working on 2 word understanding, matching and identifying pictures. We also do oro motor exercises, and learning new Makaton signs (he has no speech at all).