Speech Therapy –does it sound right for a 10 years old?

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thanks. The ENT did put a tube into DD's nose.
I am not sure whether the progress is in a platateu because I don't see the SLP is treating her.

 

[Leajess99]

My children have been in speech therapy for years due to different circumstances. My advice...run don't walk to another therapist. If you have a bad feeling, follow your gut. Don't feel like you have to stay with her. Our speech therapist is amazing and pack our time full of activities/therapy. Good luck in your search for a new one!

I so second this!!!! I dealt with a speech therapist for 11 weeks in which she only showed twice for our appointments and I used to beat myself up for waiting so long to complain or change. I was so grateful when I found out that we could get a new therapist and was given the recommendation for the one we ended up with. Had it not been for Tracey, our second ST, my daughter would not have been properly diagnosed or gotten the right therapy. I miss that ST and wish the best for her and her family as they moved from here just after my DD transferred out of early intervention and into preschool. My dd now has very few issues from her severe delay.

I would also look at getting a second opinion from a different ENT.

 

[design_mom]

Sounds like since the ENT said the hoarsness could be due to vocal abuse, the speech therapist feels she needs to teach your daughter how to speak with out yelling, or in the case of what she drinks that your daughter needs to stay away from cofee and soda and doesn't necessarily believe that your dd does not drink this. I think at the next appointment I would aske her specifically to explain how these excercises work in helping to cure the hoarsness. Don't be snippy at her but say something like "so we can carry over these activities at home can you please descriibe how the activities you are doing with my daughter work?" that leaves you making her sound like the expert and her having to answer your question and by that you can judge if this therapy is appropriate for dd. If after that you do not see the usefulness of the therapy and your daughter isn't a yeller, screamer, avid singer, or otherwise uses her voice excessively as in way more than other kids her age, make an appointment with another ENT. Maybe there is something else going on or nothing at all. There is a girl my daughter goes to school with that has a very raspy hoarse voice it has been that way since she was a preschooler she is 12 now. I am not sure that the parent has looked into it medically but that is the voice that she has always had.

I think this poster gave you excellent advice.

I will also say that both of my kids had ST for articulation issues, and I didn't not really see how the exercises could help. They were not very invasive at all. However, our therapist made a list of goals for each child which were checked every 6 weeks. I did not see day-to-day differences. However, when we checked against the goals every six weeks, my child had nearly always met them. I don't totally "get" how speech therapy works (DD also had OT and I could wrap my mind around that better), but it seems to work.

I am sure that changes to tone of voice would be harder to "measure," but perhaps you can ask your therapist about setting some goals for the therapy that are mutually acceptable. Then, you're all working toward the same goals and have a more concrete way to judge whether the therapy is working.