Re:[POSSIBLE SPAM] Re: Re: Fwd: Special scho

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I had 4 different speech therapists over the years, all suggesting pecs. I knew he could speak, but he was very, very unclear, so they didn't believe he really could/would speak properly. The NHS SLT would ignore what he said until he handed over the card. I tried to explain to him what she wanted, (give her the card then you'll get the .... ) She told me - if you understood anything about PECS, you'd know you can't say anything to the child until he's handed over the card.

Anyway - we eventually found a new therapist, who diagnosed verbal dispraxia, he had weekly therapy and we practised daily. He is 6 now and is now understood 80% of the time by most people. It took over a year of hard work. (Still need to teach sh ch j and some blends)

Actually - at nursery - the PECS toilet card was very useful, in such a noisy environment he didn't manage to say he needed to go. So instead handed over a card to teacher. Kept them on wall with velcro, lots of spares as other kids used to take them off wall and they got lost all the time.

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So weird, there was me thinking a Speech and Language therapist

might be trying to encourage - speech. gah, you must have been

tearing your hair out. All this is the opposite of Growing Minds

which treats every verbal utterance as likely to be significant. so

if he says " ca " you'd respond with " car " " great, here's a car " and

try and work out from where what it was he really wanted. So he

gets reinforced for making any verbal sound but also clear that he

needs to refine it in order to be fully understood. The idea that

he'sd say " ca " and get nothing until he'd handed me a pic of a car

kind of makes my head hurt.

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> I had 4 different speech therapists over the years, all suggesting

pecs. I knew he could speak, but he was very, very unclear, so they

didn't believe he really could/would speak properly. The NHS SLT

would ignore what he said until he handed over the card. I tried to

explain to him what she wanted, (give her the card then you'll get

the .... ) She told me - if you understood anything about PECS,

you'd know you can't say anything to the child until he's handed

over the card.

> Anyway - we eventually found a new therapist, who diagnosed verbal

dispraxia, he had weekly therapy and we practised daily. He is 6 now

and is now understood 80% of the time by most people. It took over a

year of hard work. (Still need to teach sh ch j and some blends)

> Actually - at nursery - the PECS toilet card was very useful, in

such a noisy environment he didn't manage to say he needed to go. So

instead handed over a card to teacher. Kept them on wall with

velcro, lots of spares as other kids used to take them off wall and

they got lost all the time.

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