amount of speech therapy

[Guest guest]

For those of you have children on the spectrum and have a apraxia too

how much speech therapy do you recc. My sons 5yo IEP is coming up and

I feel that now is my time to advocate!

[Guest guest]

You need 3x per week individual oral motor PROMPT speech therapy. NO LESS!

That has worked wonders for my boy.

Colleen

Mother of Charlie 2. 5 years

[ ] amount of speech therapy

For those of you have children on the spectrum and have a apraxia too

how much speech therapy do you recc. My sons 5yo IEP is coming up and

I feel that now is my time to advocate!

[Guest guest]

My son gets individual SLP 1x 45 minutes in school, and we try to do

daily SLP at home (15 to 20 minutes) with the exercises she gives us.

He is now 7 years old, in grade 1. He has a medical diagnosis of

Asperger's (waiting for further testing, possible PDD NOS), Verbal

Apraxia, Developmental Coordination disorder, and ADD. In summer

months I pay for private SLP, 2x per week.

In Kindergarten he attended a " language rich program " , where the

teacher was an SLP, but he didn't receive individual therapy. This

did not work for my son, and we saw very little progress compared to

what we saw when I started taking him to private SLP.

The SLP in school has worked a lot with children on the spectrum, but

she doesn't have as much experience with apraxia. She works a lot on

enriching his vocabulary and grammar. The private SLP uses PROMPT and

works more on pronunciation and oral motor skills.

I had to advocate (read: take Board to court) for my son to get any

SLP at all in school, since they didn't provide any individual

therapy (only consulting with the teachers or the language rich

classes), and they didn't want to change their programs to suit the

need of my son. I asked the private SLP to come to my son's IEP to

share her findings in working with my son, to talk about his needs in

Speech and in Language, and to suggest the frequency and duration of

therapy sessions. The school listened politely and then cut this in

half. So we ended up with 1x 45 minutes instead of 3x 30 minutes.

Remember to talk about his needs at the IEP, not how much therapy you

ask for. (e.g. he needs better articulation for being able to

interact better with peers and teachers, needs more vocabulary to be

able to share, needs better understanding of concepts, needs to speak

in longer sentences,...).

Prepare this " needs statement " before you go to the IEP meeting,

referring to previous SLP (or other) reports.

Besides the SLP, we have also included some other goals that relate

to speaking in his IEP.

eg. oral book presentation of 3 sentences, with each 6 words (instead

of a written report).

eg. weekly oral " show and share " , minimum 3 sentences, with each at

least 6 words.

Hope this helps and good luck with the upcoming IEP.

Hyt.

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> For those of you have children on the spectrum and have a apraxia

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> how much speech therapy do you recc. My sons 5yo IEP is coming up

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> I feel that now is my time to advocate!

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