Is it normal to dread the speech therapist coming??

[staryeyed]

Access to a speech therapist is supposed to be a good thing, but I'm not looking forward to it at all.

Last time she came straight in to the room and got in ds's face 2.5 ASD and messed his game up. I was like- WTF??!! She then told me that this is how she works. She didn't really give any useful information and just spent the rest of the time telling me her theories of autism. I'll give her the benefit of the doubt but I don't really know what to expect.

Stary,why is that 9re PECS)
Do you know that Gordon Brown has commisioned an all party parliamentary group to look into services for children with laNGUAGE IMPAIRMENTS?

iT'S HEADED by John bercow MP.
He is the head of new services for children with communication disabilities. Google for more info.

I would also urge you to read up on the Freedom of Information Act (2000)You would be amazed at what you can have access to.

OOh Moondog, have popped that in my watch... will look into that next week! TA!

Here is the info you people need

Thinks we have to work on shared attention first. I dont agree he has shared attention with Me and my family anyway.

That's pure nonsense.
PECS does not need shared attention.
Believe me,I know more about PECS than 95% of salts.

Has she done the two day PECS training(?)
If not,she doesn't have any authority on the subject.

(Have we discussed her before)

PECS will develop shared attention.
Don'y you attempt to do it until you have done a course either.

Stareyed, oh dear. If that was the case, my child never would have succeeded with pecs at the age of 2. He had NO, i mean NONE shared attention. The pecs grabbed his attention, the focus of attention is purely on the picture and the object to which it represents which is then handed or provided to the child.

the child doesnt even have to know you are there!

We didnt pursue pecs much as our child was then starting to use words, but if your child is non verbal, pecs is important to at least allow the child to discriminate what he wants. Reduces frustration and is a precursor to shared attention as said by moondog.

sheesh, where do they get this stuff from. Its like they just dont want to try or else they just make this stuff up in their heads.

Moondog I did go to course- I think it was you who persuaded me to go- remember I had the other SALT that was doing PECs at rate of snail and Ds just wasn't Picking it up. After course he went to stage 2 over 2 short sessions (with no salt involvement. So it was definitely the teacher and not the student.

This SALT just has her own set ideas despite saying she works to the child's needs. I am not happy and will have to make it clear because if we aren't all working to the same targets I don't see the point of having her at all really.

Just talked to people at Sendist locally. The majority of their cases right now are to do with speech therapy!!!!!!

If anyone wants to contribute to the review of SALT provision mentioned by moondog below I found this website www.dcsf.gov.uk/bercowreview/index.shtml