I did a very hard thing the other day. I contacted a program to have my son evaluated for speech therapy. Asking for help is never easy. But we’ve been called back, and now we have an appointment for Monday afternoon to get my son assessed for speech therapy.
I like to be optimistic and hope that it won’t take long to get my son on track with his talking. I do think he will need some help. Then again, with his habit of making sudden leaps, he might just do that again. So often he just starts doing something that I didn’t know he could do, or makes little leaps with his speaking.
But at the same time, he’s 2-1/2, rarely speaks phrases or multiple syllable words, doesn’t make “s” sounds, other sounds he can make individually but not as parts of words… I think there’s something for a therapist to work on.
Admitting that there’s any kind of a problem with how my child is developing is tough. But I think that’s likely to be the only real problem.
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Well Stephanie, I will tell you what I know about having your child in a speech r/x program. My son was 3 when he was put into an early childhood education class at our local elementry school, He is now almost 5 and will soon go into kindergarden. But we are having troubles getting that school district to release him from that class so he can normally go into the kindergarten class with out someone thinking he is special needs… but now he is labeled as special needs, although he is one of the smartest little boys I know… we are stuck because of early intervention. I just think all children learn at dif. levels. If you were to go online and find a speech r/x book, that you as a mother would do better teaching him or her to talk better… Thats what we are in the process of doing, and let me tell ya’ this is working so much better!!!
I’m sorry that went so hard for you. Some schools are not so good at considering the way individual children develop.
I’m not too worried about my school district. Two of my daughter’s preschool classmates went through speech therapy at her school, and they’re going to regular classes now.
[...] I had one person comment on my previous post about this that sometimes schools try to keep speech therapy students in the developmentally disabled classes. That of course gave me pause for thought. Fortunately, I know of two girls in my daughter’s preschool class last year who went through this same program. Guess what. They’re in the regular classes. I’m pretty sure my school district won’t be messing us up that way. [...]