HELP...Behavior issues disrupting speech therapy

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Hi all!

I have been reading on this site for a few months now and can not thank you

enough for the amazing advice.

I'm having an issue and hope I'm not alone. My son has had an issue with his

behavior from the start of therapy in our home at 27 months through early

intervention (He is now 32 months old). In general he has never been frustrated

by his lack of speech (even when he only had 3 words at 26 months). But, when

speech demands are placed on him by his therapists, he flees the activity and

completely shuts down. We are now on therapist #2 who is having the same issue

with him.

In general, he is an amazingly well behaved 2 1/2 year old. The only time I

really see negative behaviors (not sharing, yelling, general non-compliance) is

during early intervention speech. I have sat through 6 months of therapy

watching my son get in trouble with minimal " therapy " getting accomplished. I

am devasted that my well behaved son is so non-compliant, but we have tried

almost everything to make this work. I know that time is so precious and that

apraxia needs to be addressed in a very specific way. I need to do what is best

for my son I just don't know what that is right now.

(PS- We just started him in out-patient therapy once a week as well which is

going slightly better.)

Just wondering if anyone has had experience dealing with this kind of situation!

Thank you!