His mother says she has noticed it, too, and
his speech therapist says he is more assertive now and better able to express himself.»
Not exact matches
Sometimes, the
therapist, also called a
speech and language pathologist (
say: pah - THOL - uh - jist), will come right to your school to meet with you.
See what our expert
says about deciding whether your toddler should be evaluated by a
speech therapist.
Still Blonde... sometimes when I, as a
speech therapist, get a child talking, their parents turn to me and
say, «okay, how do we make him stop??»
Wilshaw has
said that while a small number of primary schools offer this form of education, more need to be involved as they are best placed, as they will have wider access to the kind of specialists that young children may need, such as
speech and language
therapists, behaviour management and parenting support.
Almost half (45 per cent) of
speech and language
therapists surveyed by the RCSLT
said that they lack the time and resources to provide services to children and young people with communication problems who do not have an education, health and care (EHC) plan.
Richard Cohen, a monitor appointed by the department to oversee Boston's compliance with the law,
said in a report issued last month that the district provided inadequate transportation services and6too few
speech therapists, among other alleged violations.
He
said schools had more access to the kind of specialists they may need, such as
speech and language
therapists, behaviour management and parenting support.
The report
said that
therapists were not always found for pupils; Patel agreed and
said educational psychologists and
speech and language
therapists were especially challenging to recruit.
If you do get
speech Therapy for your child, it is important that the
therapist not pressure the child to stop stuttering, and make the goal of the treatment «to stop stuttering» as that will only have the opposite effect as I have
said.
Philip Brody
says that in his 30 years as a
speech therapist and audiologist, he has never seen a case of stuttering that was resolved by
Speech Therapy alone!