SALT advice - lingle, TotalChaos, others?

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We saw SALT for DS (3, ASD) - she's nice and experienced. BUT instead of doing things like teaching him verbs and prepositions, SALT said not to worry about language: DS (she said) has a lot of language. Would that be the same DS who repeats scripts from tv and whose receptive language is 18 months behind? [hmmm]
Right now, SALT said, we need to concentrate on communication - not on what DS says, or indeed on whether he says anything at all, but on him wanting to communicate and interact with us and others. That's more important than the past tense or the plural. What about school, says I. You worry too much, take it easy, he'll be alright, says SALT.

1. Is SALT right or is this NHS-speak for 'we only have three SALTs and there are kids in the borough who don't talk at all - you're not a priority'?
2. What do I do now? Do I spend the little time I have with DS (I work f/t) teaching him verbs in an Italian accent? Do I get a private SALT behind their back? Do I Hanen DS out of his skull until he interacts 24/7 and then demand 'verbs-and-plural' SALT? Aarghh

Thanks moondog and all of you. I've thought a good compromise would be to continue with the Hanen until DS reaches the 'Partner' level, and then seek more structured, targeted speech and language therapy.
It'd be interesting to have a thread reporting how it went in Arizona btw

Moondog, have a great time I hope it is very reinforcing
Sorry, I haven't read full thread in detail, part skim. But ABA seems to get associated with behaviour, probably because of its name. In our case we certainly needed work on behaviour but it is really a "system", for want of a better word, to teach effectively. You can teach anything with ABA really and many kids I know who have not had "behavioural problems" have still been taught with ABA. Where they might have behaviour issues is learning something like toileting for instance. Also not sure about the emphasis on the emotional side and think functional is more relevant, for us at least.

Davros, you are an ABA veteran - can one mix systems and use ABA for some things (like toileting) but other approaches for other things? Or can one do ABA for only a few hours a week? And would your average ABA tutor be happy with that, or would they expect full commitment?

have posted on this on the other thread sc13 about what Greenspan says.

Hello ladies
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Back to my drink.
Will post again when home.