Re: How often are you updated about your child progress by school therapist??

[Guest guest]

I would expect updates weekly. Send in a journal to all therapist's as a

communication device between you and all therapists. Ask weekly what they are

working on so you can do the same excercises at home. I would also sit in a few

times a month. What were the goals set up? Has your child met any of these? Have

the goals changed? You are your childs voice. I would not let her get away with

that. DEMAND updates! It's your job as a parent

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From: tookiecrunch <tookiecrunch@...>

Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 7:17:07 PM

Subject: [ ] How often are you updated about your child

progress by school therapist??

 

My 3 daughter has bee receiving speech therapy through the special needs public

school system for about 5 months. During this 5 months(after several request)

I've been updated once at which time the therapist was VERY vague. This feedback

is important because I need to know if she is showing any progress at school.

How often should I reasonably ask about written or verbal updates on my child's

progress. Private speech is highly desired but not a possibility at this

time($$). I realize school therapist have a heavy case load but I don't want my

child to suffer. Any Comments or Suggestion would be appreciated

[Guest guest]

I wanted to suggest if you really want to get help from a private speech you can

ask for asstaints from Easter seals. They have provided me with help for my soon

several times.

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> Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 7:17:07 PM

> Subject: [ ] How often are you updated about your child

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> My 3 daughter has bee receiving speech therapy through the special needs

public school system for about 5 months. During this 5 months(after several

request) I've been updated once at which time the therapist was VERY vague. This

feedback is important because I need to know if she is showing any progress at

school. How often should I reasonably ask about written or verbal updates on my

child's progress. Private speech is highly desired but not a possibility at this

time($$). I realize school therapist have a heavy case load but I don't want my

child to suffer. Any Comments or Suggestion would be appreciated

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[Guest guest]

Hi -

I have had the same problem for 2-1/2 years. I sent a book for the SLP to

write in every week. She wrote 3 notes the whole year and we had a few

phone conversations. Does your child have CAS? My son has moderate CAS.

He receives 2 half hour group sessions and one half hour one on one session

from the school per week. He requires at least 3 full hours of therapy a

week. There is a program at our local university that takes him twice a

week for a modest fee and he sees a private speech therapist 1x per week -

each session is 45 minutes. Depending upon the severity, children with CAS

need a certain amount of one on one therapy per week and you need to work

with them at home. Its all about repetition. Check for local universities

that have SLP graduate programs. A graduate student would be giving your

child therapy under very strict supervision. They charge about 1/4 to 1/3

of what a private SLP charges. You may be put on a waiting list since they

are very popular. I had to wait a year for my son to get in. Well worth

it! If you live in NJ, I can give you the names of a few universities that

have this program. Best of luck to you!

Geo

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:17 PM, tookiecrunch <tookiecrunch@...>wrote:

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> My 3 daughter has bee receiving speech therapy through the special needs

> public school system for about 5 months. During this 5 months(after several

> request) I've been updated once at which time the therapist was VERY vague.

> This feedback is important because I need to know if she is showing any

> progress at school. How often should I reasonably ask about written or

> verbal updates on my child's progress. Private speech is highly desired but

> not a possibility at this time($$). I realize school therapist have a heavy

> case load but I don't want my child to suffer. Any Comments or Suggestion

> would be appreciated

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[Guest guest]

i believe we get quartly updates

Darcy

[Guest guest]

Geo- where do u get therapy? Can u personally contact me? I would really

appreciate it. We also have been looking into universities. Thanks

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From: " G. Cupo " <agoodguy12@...>

Sent:Thu 8/27/09 9:01 pm

Subj:Re: [ ] How often are you updated about your child

progress by school therapist??

Hi -

You may be put on a waiting list since they

are very popular. I had to wait a year for my son to get in. Well worth

it! If you live in NJ, I can give you the names of a few universities that

have this program. Best of luck to you!

Geo

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

My son is 3.4 yo and in the districts special day class. In the IEP it is

written with three short term objectives per one measurable Annual goal. So we

have 3 progress reports then the IEP (unless I call for an earlier IEP!) every

year. If you don't have short term goals, then how do you know if your child is

working toward their Annual IEP goals? At the three month progress report, we

have had to tweak goals a little and even add more.

Plus I email his therapists (OT,PT, APE and SLP) every couple of weeks to touch

bases. I also had it written into the IEP that I physically take my son to

speech after school (if the times are available) and at least one OT and one PT

session/week. That way it was almost like private therapy and I got to speak to

the therapist for just a quick minute!

I would talk to the districts special ed supervisor and to his teacher if you

are unable to get things resolved with the SLP. It is unacceptable to not know

what type of progress your daughter has or has not been making. Plus the SLP

should give you some sort of homework you can work on. If for some reason your

IEP doesn't have short term objectives/goals then I would call for another IEP

and have them written in.

Good Luck :-)

Jenna Weil

[Guest guest]

Hi,

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My child is a lot older though 11 yo. I recieve updates tucked inside with my

sons report cards quarterly which is about 4 times during the school year and I

also get reports in writing during any IEP meeting and if I request a meeting of

any type surrounding my sons special services i usually get a quick verbal

update without even asking for one.

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I ususally can tell whether my son is making progress though due to the fact he

might pronounce a word very clear which was not clear at all before or a new

word I have never heard him say before. Sometimes I will�overhear my son role

playing�ST when playing. He will practice sounding out words and telling

himself how to hold his mouth. I even hear him telling him self no thats not

right way, and him trying to show him self how to make the facial movements. I

also hear him and see him practicing how to hold his mouth,blowing noises. These

type sof things show me that my son is indeed making very extremely slow

progress but progressing�though.�

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Sometimes it seems like ST is going no where and is doing nothing to improve or

help. I felt that way from age 2 till age 6 . THere was very little actuall

verbal sounds much less actual words that one could understand, (Started�ST

age 4mos was not even cooing just a very fussy baby who cried 24/7 with no stop

for only a matter�of an hour or 2 a day). At age 6 ish my son started to make

progress with ST. But it was a very slow and one word at a time. When he turned

8 he started to gain faster. Speech�really took a huge jump almost overnight

at age�10. Now at 11 he is talking in�sentences but still omitting words so

that his speech sounds much younger and his tone of voice is that of a toddler.

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I would harp on them until they give u the updates you would like. Stay on their

case though be persistant. Sometimes unless u harp on them constant they do not

respond and even ignore u. But the more of a pain u make yourself the more

likely they will be sick of u calling them and finally give u the info you want.

I know this has been my experience. I had a problem with something last

year�regarding my son. Every time I talked to someone at school i kept

repeating it over and over to everyone on my sons IEP team I ran into. I even

repeated this to the special ed director real rudely in the middle of Walmart to

her. i got what I wanted after that one.�

Good luck

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Jeanne and

NH

[Guest guest]

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We get�speech funding�through MRDD.� That may be worth checking into, as

well as Easter Seals, or maybe a nearby University.� College students training

to be SLP's often provide therapy at discounted rates so they can learn

alongside an instructor.

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As for updates from the school, I just ask for them all the time from 's

preschool teacher and SLP.� If your child has an IEP, maybe consider making

regular updates part of the IEP.� Coop's teacher is nice enough to write down

in a notebook the things he did at school that day...that way I can ask him

specifically about certain activities, and I also get a handle on what he's

struggling with.�� The SLP writes me a progress report weekly as well, but

only after I asked her to.

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Maybe your daughter's teacher and SLP would do the same?� Couldn't hurt to

ask, right?

Good luck

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Gretchen

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[Guest guest]

Communication is HUGE for me. My daughter is almost 3. I went back to work a few

months ago and can not longer be at all of her appointments and it's important

to me that I know what she's doing daily. I have a little notebook that I put

together and every day I have our her preschool teacher, her daycare provider,

and all of her therapists (speech, occupational, physical) write notes after

their sessions or time with her. I've never had any pushback on this. I had

her preschool and her speech therapist each forgot or not write in it once.

It's extremely reasonable to ask them to fill out a couple of lines about what

happened in therapy. They should be happy that your child has a parent that

cares about progress.

I haven't read all of the posts and don't know if someone has mentioned this,

but it's well within your rights to ask that communication be a part of the IEP

(assuming your child has an IEP). That will ensure that the therapist has a

legal obligation to send you a note, call you a specific number of times-

whatever you prefer.