Re: P.S. extra speech therapy

[Guest guest]

I specifically left the word out " from the school system " to indicate

that " speech therapy " is necessary and alot of it. If the parent is

trained and able to do this, then less is required from the school. If

the parent can't or won't, then they need all that they can get. Quite

frankly, worked MUCH better for the therapists. Due to his

personality, he refused to work for me. SO, it was critical to his

training to get that extra therapy from others. Further, my therapists

were significantly more able than I was in the early stages. The old

therapists taught me how in addition to working with him. When he hit

the school system, that stopped. Sadly.

" Listen-Up! " wrote:

>

> > I just wanted

> > to let her know that I'm concerned that if the goal is for a child to be

> > oral, unless a child gets enough speech therapy, they will most probably

> > not be as successful.

>

> The very first time we saw an AV therapist, she told me it wasn't her job to

> teach JD how to use his hearing and speech, that was MY job. Her job was to

> teach me how to teach our son and she would do that by working with him,

> giving me reading assignments, asking me questions, providing me with ideas

> and techniques, etc. JD - when he has had an AV therapist - has always had 1

> session a week that was 1 hour long.

>

> During the 6 years when JD had no AV therapist, he still only got 1 hour a

> week from the schools, but JD was the only oral deaf child in the school

> district so you can imagine the quality of that therapy. Had it not been for

> our son's first therapist, JD would not have had the option to remain oral.

>

> Now that he once again has an AV therapist, you guessed it, he sees her once

> a week for an hour.

>

> Since my opinion as to whether JD is an oral success or not is obviously

> biased, RoseAnn or anyone else who has actually met my son, would you care

> to say a few words about JD's oral abilities?

>

> Kay

>

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[Guest guest]

> I just wanted

> to let her know that I'm concerned that if the goal is for a child to be

> oral, unless a child gets enough speech therapy, they will most probably

> not be as successful.

The very first time we saw an AV therapist, she told me it wasn't her job to

teach JD how to use his hearing and speech, that was MY job. Her job was to

teach me how to teach our son and she would do that by working with him,

giving me reading assignments, asking me questions, providing me with ideas

and techniques, etc. JD - when he has had an AV therapist - has always had 1

session a week that was 1 hour long.

During the 6 years when JD had no AV therapist, he still only got 1 hour a

week from the schools, but JD was the only oral deaf child in the school

district so you can imagine the quality of that therapy. Had it not been for

our son's first therapist, JD would not have had the option to remain oral.

Now that he once again has an AV therapist, you guessed it, he sees her once

a week for an hour.

Since my opinion as to whether JD is an oral success or not is obviously

biased, RoseAnn or anyone else who has actually met my son, would you care

to say a few words about JD's oral abilities?

Kay

[Guest guest]

Since my opinion as to whether JD is an oral success or not is obviously

biased, RoseAnn or anyone else who has actually met my son, would you care

to say a few words about JD's oral abilities?

Kay

I really can't imagine Kay being biased, can you?? ;-)

Seriouly, JD has excellent oral skills. We were lucky enough to get to meet

Kay and her family (and and her family too!) not to long ago. JD

answered the door when we arrived. He very politely said, " Hello, welcome

to my home. I am JD " . I was very impressed!!! Kay has done a

wonderful job, and I would say her account of his abilities is not

exagerated in the least.

RoseAnn