Ds1 started group speech therapy yesterday

[colditz]

Thank GOD he knows his letters! Thank God he knows how to rhyme! He's only bloody four, and the group was expected to know letter sounds to do the therapy! Is this normal?

There was 1 other four year old there, and she didn't know her letters (unsurprisingly, at just-turned-four) and she struggled - why do they have to be put into such mixed age groups? It just makes the little ones feel dumb when they can't do it (my heart was breaking for our two littlies) and the big ones feel even dumber when a four year old manages something they can't do yet! It seems ridiculous, and they didn't do anything they can't do at home!

Am I missing something? Is group SALT secretly really good for them in some way?

DD has just completed a 6 week group therapy course.
To us it was soo obvious what her difficulties are but the SLT said that she was one of the better ones.

I couldnt understand the point of it really, we have had a report saying that DD interacted with the other children and that they have no concerns re her interaction/social skills but 3 of them were from her bloomin nursery and she would only interact with them, she wasnt interested in the other little girls there.

Colditz, a slat doesn't expect a child to be able to do anyting.Activities are palnned to see how they cope.If you're not sure of the pint of it all, ask if you can have written copy of aims.
That's what I do as a salt.

Ahhhhhh

I see.

I thought they were expected to be able to do all the activities.

He had his 6 monthly review today, and his concentration is still not good for his age, and although he is capable of a great deal, we'll never really know how much because he loses interest and climbs all over the bloody furniture, tries to take the pen off the therapist, hangs off door handles, rolls about on the floor, chatters incessantly with no regard to what other people are saying to him etc. I was specifically asked to keep quiet so she could see exactly what he is like when I am not around, btw, I don't usually allow him to become that distracted.

I am really worried that he is going to have to be physically sat upon before he manages to learn anything at school.