How much improvement should I expect from speech therapy?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

OP, if you can swing it, the best money you ever spend might be going to see the Camaratas in Nashville. They gave us our road map after multiple speech therapists dropped the ball with our son.

I would second going only for the opinion. We did not find them helpful as the services, school and everything else was working but I could see where if it wasn't they would be.

In our case, Mary Camarata helped redirect our own local SLP, who was considered one of the best in our Midwestern city and had worked in the children's hospital language program. But DS's progress had really stalled. I took a recording of one of the sessions to Mary, who told me, "This is a waste of everyone's time." Luckily, our SLP was open to advice -- and found it worked just like Mary said it would.

At one of our Nashville appointments, I also saw Mary get our child to engage in several turns of conversation -- and she didn't say a word. But he kept responding, verbally, to her gestures and reactions in a game they were playing. And this is a child who at the time could only do two turns of conversation.