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[quote=Anonymous][quote]OP here - thank you for all of the kind responses. I'm sorry that I sounded so rude by calling speech a "sham." It just really feels like in our situation that it is a waste of time/money. I have read all kinds of books, I do all the therapists recommendations with the kids all the time. It just seems like the last 6 months or more we just coast through speech sessions and nothing comes out of it. Maybe it's just the age. Like I said before, we saw the changes in our older son when we put him in private speech for articulation issues. We have speech this morning for just TWIN B now. I think that it is just time to get a new therapist.[/quote]

OP you can also take a break from speech therapy do some play exercises at home and restart again in a few months. I agree with you on the "it feels like a sham" for kids that have mild delays or kids who end up just being late talkers. We had one county speech therapist that wanted to do PROMPT in case DC had apraxia because this is what she was trained in for speech therapy. Our DC had no interest in this and was far too young for apraxia to be diagnosed. We went to a private therapist that did more play based exercised. At first it didn't seem like their was much progress but he enjoyed it. After a few months his speech exploded and he caught up quickly.

The problem with so many therapies now is that there isn't good research or there are a lot of therapies (oral motor exercises for example) that the research studies show don't have any effect. As a parent, you don't want to not do something and find out later on that you should have done it but it leads a good number of people down a path of stress, wasted money and time. [/quote]

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