Re: How many hrs. of therapy

[Guest guest]

Here's the speech therapy matrix. You might want to use this in

your IEP.

Good luck!

Suzi

> Hi

>

> I have a 4yr who has speech delay and his IEP meeting

> is coming up, he gets 1/2 a hour of speech therapy a

> week in school and a hour from the pediatric place at

> our cost. I believe he should get 3 hrs a week but I

> know they are going to fight with me. How much

> therapy

> on a average should a child with speech delay receive?

> And how should fight back with his school to increase

> his therapy?

>

>

> maria_renella@y...

> mom to 4yrs

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

Here are some Self-Help IEP links that should answer some of your

questions. Also the Speech Therapy Matrix that Suzi just informed you

about can be found at the CHERAB Web-site http://www.apraxia.cc (look

under the index) Hope this helps some!

Best Wishes,

You (Self)Preparing for the IEP Meeting

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Cherab Index-School

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IEP4U

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> I have a 4yr who has speech delay and his IEP meeting

> is coming up, he gets 1/2 a hour of speech therapy a

> week in school and a hour from the pediatric place at

> our cost. I believe he should get 3 hrs a week but I

> know they are going to fight with me. How much

> therapy

> on a average should a child with speech delay receive?

> And how should fight back with his school to increase

> his therapy?

[Guest guest]

The matrix was not attached to the message. Can you paste it in the

message instead?

> Here's the speech therapy matrix. You might want to use this in

> your IEP.

>

> Good luck!

>

> Suzi

> >

> > I have a 4yr who has speech delay and his IEP meeting

> > is coming up, he gets 1/2 a hour of speech therapy a

> > week in school and a hour from the pediatric place at

> > our cost. I believe he should get 3 hrs a week but I

> > know they are going to fight with me. How much

> > therapy

> > on a average should a child with speech delay receive?

> > And how should fight back with his school to increase

> > his therapy?

[Guest guest]

http://www.apraxia.cc/

Someone else posted the link. It's on the apraxia home page under

therapy matrix.

> The matrix was not attached to the message. Can you paste it in

the

> message instead?

>

>

> > Here's the speech therapy matrix. You might want to use this in

> > your IEP.

> >

> > Good luck!

> >

> > Suzi

>

> > >

> > > I have a 4yr who has speech delay and his IEP meeting

> > > is coming up, he gets 1/2 a hour of speech therapy a

> > > week in school and a hour from the pediatric place at

> > > our cost. I believe he should get 3 hrs a week but I

> > > know they are going to fight with me. How much

> > > therapy

> > > on a average should a child with speech delay receive?

> > > And how should fight back with his school to increase

> > > his therapy?

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

In an attempt to find more clarity to your question, I sent your

message on to a good friend and this was her response to me. Hope this

can help.

Mustafa

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,

My thought would be to guide her to build her case. Ask her how he

has progressed with 1/2 hour per week, is he getting further ahead or

lagging further behind? That will give her the answers to both of her

questions, because it will suggest whether or not he needs more

therapy and it will begin to lay the groundwork for asserting that to

the school. In particular, if she looks at his percentile scores on

similar testing, comparing the scores over time, she can chart whether

he's getting his needs met adequately. For example, if he was in the

lower 20% when he was 3, and is now up to 40%, he's doing pretty well.

But if he was in the lower 20% at 3 and has now increased to only the

lower 25%, I would push for more speech therapy, knowing that he'll be

starting kindergarten soon enough (and we want our kids to be talking

pretty well by then, if possible). The aim is to get to a solid 50%

range, where a child is at least " average " at speech/language,

compared to peers.

The school can also look at other factors, like the degree of

frustration he is showing due to his inability to communicate (school

would look at these types of factors in order to rationalize increased

therapy).

The private SLP's recommendation for increased therapy (ie written

recommendation) would also be helpful in documenting need for more

therapy.

> Hi

>

> I have a 4yr who has speech delay and his IEP meeting

> is coming up, he gets 1/2 a hour of speech therapy a

> week in school and a hour from the pediatric place at

> our cost. I believe he should get 3 hrs a week but I

> know they are going to fight with me. How much

> therapy

> on a average should a child with speech delay receive?

> And how should fight back with his school to increase

> his therapy?

>

>

> maria_renella@y...

> mom to 4yrs

>