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Donna Marie
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Posted: Sept 08 2005 at 9:16pm \| IP Logged

hello...

is it possible to do speech therapy at home? My twin dd's speech still has not cleared and they are 11. One of my daughters is just slightly unclear and the other is more pronounced. Mostly we are having problems with r's and making too many sounds in the front of the mouth. I reeeaaally do not want to get involved in the school system if I can help it...advice?

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Karen T
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Posted: Sept 08 2005 at 9:53pm \| IP Logged

Donna Marie wrote:

There are many private speech therapists. Both of my younger children had speech at home by private therapists before they were old enough to get it through the local school. It's expensive, though; ours was partially covered by an early intervention program in our county, but once they reach age 3 they're expected to receive it through the school or else you pay for it all. My son did have 2 yrs of speech at a local school, from age 3 to 5.5, but my dd was catching up well by age 3 so I chose not to have her eval. by the school for further therapy. Other than a lot of paperwork, we didn't have any bad experience with the school (well, a little subtle disapproval at our decision to keep him home for kindergarten). But for scheduling, you're at their mercy since they will accomodate their own students first and you get stuck with whatever time is available.
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Posted: Sept 11 2005 at 4:10pm \| IP Logged

I have had two children in speech therapy for several years, but we do it privately thru an independent group. Some of my friends have actually had private speech therapists who will come to your home. Sometimes you can find graduate students in Speech Therapy who might be more reasonable. That being said, we've gone the private speech academy route, and have never had the slightest bit of trouble. In fact, they appreciate our homeschooling, and the fact that we can come during the day makes scheduling easy. Prepare to pay handsomely, but it's certainly money well-spent.

Kelly in FL

PS A good speech therapist will give you, the parent, cards and drills to do with your childen and will emphasize that you do them on your own. If you do them religiously and consistently, you can get by with many fewer formal sessions. We often go several months at a time without a formal meeting, but have the cards and the speech therapist's guidelines to keep us on track when we're away. The key really is consistency...and a good rapport with your speech therapist. If you don't get along with them, I'd find a different speech therapist immediately, one who is in sync with your decision to homeschool as well as your personality!

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Posted: Sept 12 2005 at 8:54am \| IP Logged

Kelly wrote:

PS A good speech therapist will give you, the parent, cards and drills to do with your childen and will emphasize that you do them on your own. If you do them religiously and consistently, you can get by with many fewer formal sessions. ....

If you don't get along with them, I'd find a different speech therapist immediately, one who is in sync with your decision to homeschool as well as your personality!

Definitely! A good speech therapist will know that it's mostly work done at home that brings change. They should highly encourage you and teach you how to work with your children. I would go in to the first meeting and explain your situation...."I can only afford 3 sessions" or whatever you have decided. That way you can plan with the therapist how to best use her time.

Look into the colleges near you - if they have a speech language pathology department, they will most likely run a clinic where graduate students do the therapy but they are highly guided by their licensed advisors. This is usually much cheaper than traditional private therapy. You can also go to the ASHA website's "professional search" page ASHA's PROSERV
and put in your state and zip code. It will bring up therapists you can call to ask if they do therapy on the side and explain your situation. I've had several people find me this way (I was an SLP until about a year ago when I let my licensure lapse, since I hadn't been actively working for years anyway!). Many of my friends have done work on the side for reasonable rates and are usually more than willing to teach parents how to "take over" for them.

HTH

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