SLT in prep schools

[AnnaMolly]

My Dd (3:5) has a stammer, and currently attends speech and language therapy. She is too young to determine whether it will resolve or become a long term problem (although as it is intermittent we are hopeful that she will grow out of it). I was just wondering whether anyone has any experience of how much provision or facilitation, if any, we can expect within school time at prep schools. I have enquired at a couple of schools and am awaiting more info, but wondered what is typical. Also, do things like optional elocution clubs within schools, have any impact on the way children with stammers are treated by other children? i.e would it be more likely that DD would stand out as not speaking with perfect elocution?

Any advice or experiences very welcome. I will also post this thread in behaviour & development. Thanks.

There would be minimal provision in dc prep school , for example. They might accommodate a child with such a difficulty but specialist therapy would normally be done out of school. There may be some one to one learning support time, should it impact on her learning (reinforcing phonics for example), but you may have to pay for it. Not come across an elocution club !

Most of the prep schools around here (Chelsea) have SLT's visiting to do in-school sessions - ours certainly has. A number of children also do out of school sessions. Note however, if you have an NHS therapist you like, she won't be able to keep working with your child once she is at an independent schools (at least in our borough) as the SLTs are partly paid for by the health budget and partly by the education and people without a school place can't access education-funded services. Why when we still pay for them, I simply don't know. Rant rant.

Same are way - that most prep schools don't mind you having the SLT to visit, but you have to pay for it. This is the case for Ed Psychs as well etc.

You have to go private once chosen private school.

Like MP I rant about this one!!!

Thank you for the responses. Hopefully this won't be an issue, but if DD does end up needing long term support, it would be great to think that the schools would be receptive. At present we are told that her language knowledge is too advanced for her age/cognition, which is a good sign that as she get older things may settle down.

Visiting SLTs would be a good sign, of a supportive school, even if I do need to pay for it. It would be a shame not to be able to continue with DDs current SLT, outside of school hours, if necessary, as she really likes her. Baffling that because you aren't using all of your allocated education resources, you can't use any . Hopefully, funding for SLT will still be continue while she is is receipt of early years education funding.

I'll have to look into the one to one learning support. At present a lot of what we are doing involves one to one time at home, sometimes as little as 5 mins a day.

I'm not sure what to make of the elocution club. I won't be signing my dc up for it, but I wonder if it may affect how others who attend view DD. Not sure if it could be negative or positive.

Likewise roopg & mp. LA could n't care less, basically we were on our own tbh it depends who is funding the therapy.We still had access, if low priority, to OT because it was NHS not LA funded. I think you are correct regarding it all being accessible while in Early Years education, however it is fudned.