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[quote=Anonymous]My twins have been in Early Intervention (Fairfax) since they were born. They were preemies and also growth restricted. They did PT for a few months for some slight motor delays and caught up nicely. Then they transferred into speech therapy. We do not supplement with private speech. It has been a year. Each session, and they have 4 total a month, gets billed for $150/each. DH and I do not have to pay anything for the services, so the county pays for it all. That's approx. $7200/year spent on speech services. Twin A barely graduated out of speech this month, and Twin B is still delayed enough to qualify. I feel like it is an incredible waste of time and money. It was, however useful in the beginnings weeks because our SLP taught ME how to interact and teach them. How to elicit words and phrases, etc, etc. But, after a few months at the very most, I feel like it does absolutely nothing now. DH thinks it's a sham. I'm afraid to stop services because I feel like we need to do everything we can for our kids to help them and don't want to look back and think that I could have done more. Is this just me? My twins don't have any diagnosed special need other than being speech delayed. Ped and SLP think that they are catching up and just take longer to do things than their peers. I feel like if the county just gave us the same amount of money that they use on paying a speech therapist, I could spend it on other activities that would be more beneficial. For example, we payed for Gymboree for them and they learned way more from that class then from their speech sessions. Anyone else have this experience? Or do we just have a bad SLP? Oh, my kids are 2.25. Started speech at 16 months.[/quote]

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