Re: question about short or long time therapy

[Guest guest]

I've debated that myself.??? All the books I read on apraxia say 2 short

sessions as many days as possible.??? Personally, my son get's one half hour

session and one hour session per week from the state.???? I feel like the 1/2

hour session goes by too quickly.

Thanks

Sue

[ ] question about short or long time therapy

Hi

Iam asking for my daughter, it is better to give For example one hour, to be

30min, twice a week therapy, as to be seen short time and frequent, or to be one

hour per week.

thanks

[Guest guest]

Hi,

My son who just turned 2 1/2 years gets therapy 5x a week for 30 mins each.

They say more frequent is better then less days a week for longer each time.

It has really helped my son with the shorter and more days.. We still have a

long way to go

but I see huge improvements.

I hope this helps.

Carolyn

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From: caroline yassa <c_yassa@...>

Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 10:25:44 PM

Subject: [ ] question about short or long time therapy

Hi

Iam asking for my daughter, it is better to give For example one hour, to be

30min, twice a week therapy, as to be seen short time and frequent, or to be one

hour per week.

thanks

[Guest guest]

Short-frequent sessions are suggested and seem to work better for that age

group. Its difficult to keep their attention much longer than 30minutes. when

they reach school-age, they do 45min sessions starting in K. anything after that

is just wishful thinking!

Even in EI--they do 30min sessions...some of the therapists tried 45min and it

was easy to tell when they we had lost them and they were done whether the clock

said so or not!

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30min, twice a week therapy, as to be seen short time and frequent, or to be one

hour per week.

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[Guest guest]

EI where I have lived (two areas) have always done blocks of 1 hour. My

kids have worked until they lost concentration (40-50 mins usually, 30 on

the bad days) and I spend the rest of the time learning from or discussing

things with the therapist.

In school (K) my son had two 30 min sessions. When he was in preschool he

went twice a week for an hour to private therapy and also received 1 hour a

week in class from the school (not very useful) as well as 1 hour of OT most

of the time.

Miche

[Guest guest]

Hi Sue,

My son is receiving two 45 mins. sessions through the state and I pay for two 30

mins. sessions private.

We just had a review last week and I asked them to up my son's 2x a week through

the state to 3x a week

and they agreed to give him 3x a week at 30 mins each instead of two 45 mins. I

was happy with this

since everything has been a fight to get them to increase services. We all know

with Apaxia

more is better. I agree the 30 mins goes so fast but with him the 5 days will be

great.

I hope this helps and doesn't confuse you more. I would fight the state to give

him more

services.

Good luck,

Carolyn

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From: " NotefrmSue@... " <NotefrmSue@...>

Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 7:26:33 AM

Subject: Re: [ ] question about short or long time therapy

I've debated that myself.??? All the books I read on apraxia say 2 short

sessions as many days as possible.??? Personally, my son get's one half hour

session and one hour session per week from the state.???? I feel like the 1/2

hour session goes by too quickly.

Thanks

Sue

[childrensapraxiane t] question about short or long time therapy

Hi

Iam asking for my daughter, it is better to give For example one hour, to be

30min, twice a week therapy, as to be seen short time and frequent, or to be one

hour per week.

thanks

[Guest guest]

HI Caroline,

 

I just went to the Apraxia Conf. in Illinois and all the speech

therapists/speakers said that it is better for a child to get shorter and more

frequent sessions than it is to have one long one a week. It is more likely that

the child will get more practice and word repetitions if seen in frequent

sessions and possibly keep their attention in therapy longer. 

From: caroline yassa <c_yassa@...>

Subject: [ ] question about short or long time therapy

Date: Friday, July 10, 2009, 9:25 PM

Hi

Iam asking for my daughter, it is better to give For example one hour, to be

30min, twice a week therapy, as to be seen short time and frequent, or to be one

hour per week.

thanks

[Guest guest]

thats it worked for us in EI too. If someone was too cranky or had " enough " -we

spent the rest of our time with the therapist going over " homework " or how other

things were going. It depended on if they used play-(sitting with toys on the

floor)which they mostly do in EI or were sitting at a table--which is when its

harder to get the time in.

When my 11yr old was in preschool- I had to drive him after school to another

site just for speech. He started with 3x30. He was doing so well at paying

attention-this was sitting face-face at tiny desks--that she switched him to

2x45 and he did just fine. The 45 min work better and are more realistic after

preschool age.

-- In , Grassia <miche37@...> wrote:

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> EI where I have lived (two areas) have always done blocks of 1 hour. My

> kids have worked until they lost concentration (40-50 mins usually, 30 on

> the bad days) and I spend the rest of the time learning from or discussing

> things with the therapist.

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