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[quote=Anonymous]Speech therapists do the same things you do at home (usually) unless you are simply a lazy parent. If you look at the time frames it takes for the children to start talking in therapy, they are always extremely different.. sometimes it takes 3 months.. sometimes, 9 months..  The only thing it does is make you feel better as a person, because you tried to do something.. The fact is, if you are working at it at home as usual, the child will talk when their brain develops the ability to form the words, or when they choose to. There is no magic that a speech therapist performs. It's just repetition, and response triggering. 
        "It must have been effective because my child started talking while in speech therapy"... no.. the fact is, they started generally around the time they would have, regardless.. you just happened to have them in therapy at the time...  this is not to say that therapy is useless. Therapy can be useful if you have limited time to teach your child. AKA both parents work full time on staggered shifts, and the child gets bounced around a lot. there isn't much conversing going on in such a home, everyone is working or tired from working. hence there isn't much interaction going on. this is where a therapist comes in handy. Keep in mind, there is nothing a therapist will do that you can't do at home. There's no magic wand they can wave to make words appear. It's just a matter of the brain's communication "turning on" at a certain time, and being prepared for it. [/quote]

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