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Half hour a week is not enough time to remediate speech sound errors. However, speech sessions are for instructional purposes only. The student is given placement cues, strategies, etc. to produce the sound correctly. Parents and teachers are given information for eliciting correct production and providing opportunities to practice. As with all homework, practice should occur daily and outside of the school setting- if you want the student to progress. A student could have 30 minutes or 3 hours a week and it won't make a difference if he/she is not practicing in other settings/more frequently. National average for students in speech therapy:3.5 years.
Half hour a week is not enough time to remediate speech sound errors. However, speech sessions are for instructional purposes only. The student is given placement cues, strategies, etc. to produce the sound correctly. Parents and teachers are given information for eliciting correct production and providing opportunities to practice. As with all homework, practice should occur daily and outside of the school setting- if you want the student to progress. A student could have 30 minutes or 3 hours a week and it won't make a difference if he/she is not practicing in other settings/more frequently. National average for students in speech therapy:3.5 years.
Thank for sharing this information with me. How do IEP determine how many hours of speech therapy a child needs? (My child has tongue thrust which makes her have a problem pronouncing "s" and "r".) I don't know how they thought 1/2 per week would be effective. I didn't get any information from the speech teacher for exercises to use at home. Maybe my child doesn't have that severe of a problem.
How do you know it is a tongue thrust?? Does your child have an open bite? How old is your child? It is often misdiagnosed as an articulation disorder. Tongue thrusting is an immature swallowing pattern that usually self-corrects by age 6. If not, it is referred to as a tongue thrust. Also, if it IS a tongue thrust- the only way to correct that is by swallowing therapy, not articulation (although it does affect articulation). Swallowing therapy is not generally done in the schools but it would depend on the state. And so, you would have to go see a speech therapist in a medical setting or private practice. Also, if your child gets braces- his/her teeth will go right back to where they were because the tongue will just push them out again- if he/she does not correct his/her swallowing pattern.
Two sound errors is considered mild- unless your child is VERY hard to understand because s and r do have a high frequency of occurrence in words. 2x a week would likely be more appropriate but it is hard to say without having met your child as there are other factors that determine frequency (e.g stimulability- can your child easily produce the sound and just needs to be reminded or is it extremely effortful and/or he/she is not able to produce the sound at all?)
As far as homework- it is not advised to give homework until a student can produce the sound easily, on his/her own, and at least 80% of the time. This is because students get confused and really need the consistency of instruction etc etc.
How do you know it is a tongue thrust?? Does your child have an open bite? How old is your child? It is often misdiagnosed as an articulation disorder. Tongue thrusting is an immature swallowing pattern that usually self-corrects by age 6. If not, it is referred to as a tongue thrust. Also, if it IS a tongue thrust- the only way to correct that is by swallowing therapy, not articulation (although it does affect articulation). Swallowing therapy is not generally done in the schools but it would depend on the state. And so, you would have to go see a speech therapist in a medical setting or private practice. Also, if your child gets braces- his/her teeth will go right back to where they were because the tongue will just push them out again- if he/she does not correct his/her swallowing pattern.
Two sound errors is considered mild- unless your child is VERY hard to understand because s and r do have a high frequency of occurrence in words. 2x a week would likely be more appropriate but it is hard to say without having met your child as there are other factors that determine frequency (e.g stimulability- can your child easily produce the sound and just needs to be reminded or is it extremely effortful and/or he/she is not able to produce the sound at all?)
As far as homework- it is not advised to give homework until a student can produce the sound easily, on his/her own, and at least 80% of the time. This is because students get confused and really need the consistency of instruction etc etc.
Tongue thrust was the diagnosis we got by the speech therapist.She sucked her thumb until she was 6. Plus, she had a cross bite and already has had some work done with the orthodonist to correct this problem.
We took her to a speech therapist when she was 7. The therapist was very helpful. The half hour at school with an aide and several other studends was not. Also, she has benefitted from the daily instruction I have been giving her at home. She is doing a lot better except when she gets excited and starts talking fast. Then her old patterns come back.
Her therapist did worn us that she may always have a slight speech problem and that braces would be ineffective.
Interesting- So what did the therapy entail? Pronunciation or swallowing? I would look into your medical insurance and see if speech therapy is covered. She will always have a speech problem if she is soley working on articulation/she doesnt correct her swallowing pattern. Therapy should involve swallowing drills (e.g. holding a cheerio with your tongue tip behind your front teeth/alveolar ridge and then swallowing, etc.) Braces are effective because they will move the teeth- but if she does not correct the tongue thrust- yes, her tongue will push them back out!
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