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[quote=Anonymous]Here's my take, and my take on many such posts, and it comes from having a severely speech delayed child and assessing my own expectations of speech therapy.

You start out by discussing your PT experience and how your child/children "caught up nicely."  You therefore went into speech therapy with the same expectation -- speech therapy would result in your child catching up and speaking normally.  But speech is not a skill that is analogous with physical skills and children do not  go from no speech to perfect speech in a few months the way they go from a few physical delays to "catching up nicely."

OP, if your child has significant speech delays he may never speak perfectly.  Ever.  That's the truth.  And that has nothing to do with ST being a sham.  He may have speech issues that are irremediable.  Speech is controlled by muscles.  It is not an act of will and a talent or skill that a speech therapist elicits from the child.  The speech therapist cannot make your child speak.  It is not a reflection of her that your child cannot speak perfectly.

Furthermore, your child's speech reflects on YOU, OP.  Speech has to be practiced EVERY SINGLE DAY.  Unlike motor skills, which a child has every incentive to practice on her own, she will not practice her B's, P's, T's, etc. 10 times a day.  YOU HAVE TO DO THIS WITH HER.  To do the homework every day.  I suspect you do not.  I know I don't.  I don't have time.  And it's like practicing piano scales.  It's boring, no fun, and the child hates it.

So I think you also need to look within.[/quote]

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