I’m after advice/experiences on the effectiveness of speech therapy for kids who are a little older.
my daughter is 9, autistic, dyspraxia, language disorder, poss ADHD and some learning difficulties but no idea exactly what. She communicates pretty well verbally, her sentences are whacky due to the language disorder but what I see as a big issue is her ability to form sounds correctly.
she had weekly speech therapy in mainstream, half hour covering attention skills, a bit of speech sounds and colourful semantics. A year ago she moved to a special school and obviously their gague of who needs 1-1 interventions is a bit different. So she gets no direct speech input at all now, they say she can be understood generally so all fine. I think they think her speech is on par with her understanding, and that’s definitely not the case, she gets very frustrated when people misunderstand her and when she says difficult words she scrambles the syllables so this happens a lot!
im wondering whether to go back to paying for some private speech therapy to help. But will it help? Have people found it can help once kids get a bit older? I really thought she would get this therapy in special school but they say it’s not needed 😭
edited to add: I know I should get this properly added in her EHCP, and it is actually afaict, but I’m just not up to the battle and would rather pay at this point, use the DLA etc.