Re: Welcome Sheilvina

[Guest guest]

Thanks for the info I will print it out but I do have a question what

do you consider intensive therapy. My son goes to a speech path

twice a week for 1 hour each day and then he goes to the ish

Rites speech path 2 days a week for 1/2 hour each day. I also work

with him at home every day.

Sheilvina

> Sheilvina,

>

> Welcome to the group! This group discusses EFA's quite a bit but

EFA's

> should always be used in conjunction with intensive, frequent

speech therapy

> with a speech-language pathologist.

>

> The person who usually responds to EFA questions is moving so I am

going to

> list some resources that are kind of an " EFA's 101 " (if you will).

>

> " A simple fish oil supplement may be the key to dramatically unlock

the

> voices of children with speech and language disorders.

> That's the conclusion of a group of scientists who reviewed a study

of

> nineteen youngsters suffering from various speech problems. The

children,

> ranging in age from two years to eight years, were given a fish oil

> supplement containing a mixture of omega-3 and omega-6 essential

fatty acids

> ( EFAs ). Speech-language pathologists who monitored the children

reported

> significant improvements within just a few weeks. The improvements

were

> noted not only in the children's ability to talk, but also in their

> behavior, ability to focus, and in maintaining eye contact.

> Now the scientists, brought together by the CHERAB Foundation, a

major

> nonprofit group for children with speech disorders, are calling for

a

> large-scale clinical trial to validate these initial findings. "

>

> For entire article go to:

> http://www.cherab.org/information/dietaryeffects/Englemed.html

[Guest guest]

Sheilvina,

Here are some quotes from Childhood Motor Speech Disorder Treatment: by

Edythe Strand),

" Most of the therapy (e.g., 2-3 times a week) must be provided individually.

If group therapy is provided, it will not help unless the other children in

the group have the same diagnosis and are at the same level phonologically.

Adequate services cannot be provided in whole-classroom activities. Language

stimulation, exposure, etc. may have an impact on some social language

skills, but are not sufficient. If you are told, " (S)he'll get it by

listening to the other kids " , do not believe it. If (s)he could get it

through exposure, (s)he'd have it already. "

" A few major principles in particular have direct relevance to treatment of

motor speech disorder. The most obvious, yet surprisingly often disregarded,

is that of repetitive practice. Motor learning occurs and becomes habituated

toward more automatic processing only if enough practice trials occur. " (p,

130)

" Pairing of auditory and visual stimuli is included in most approaches, and

intensive, frequent, and systematic practice toward habituation of a

particular movement pattern is suggested instead of teaching isolated

phonemes. " (p 130)

" DAS is often characterized as being resistant to traditional methods of

treatment. It may be that traditional methods are not to blame so much as:

(1) The child's individual needs have not been given enough attention, (2)

principles of motor learning (e.g. sufficient practice, knowledge of

results) have not been sufficiently implemented into treatment, (3) not

enough attention has been paid to varying the oral relationship between

stimulus and the response, and (4) sessions are too infrequent to allow

sufficient motor practice... " (p 131)

" The principles of treatment for motor speech disorders just discussed may

be hard to implement in some clinical settings, especially the public

schools. Large caseload demands often prohibit individual treatment. Group

therapy decreases the potential number of responses per session for each

child and, therefore, the motor practice needed by children with apraxia or

dysarthria. The schedules of itinerant therapists often prevent them from

seeing a child more than once or twice a week, which would greatly impede

potential progress. Although it may not always be possible to have an

optimum clinical situation, it is important to consider the treatment needs

of each child and attempt to find creative solutions that allow frequent

individual treatment for those children who will most benefit. " (p 137)

Here is a link that has all sorts of info about therapy for apraxia:

http://www.speech-express.com/diagnosis-destinations/apraxia/speech-therapy-

frequency.html

Tricia Morin

North Carolina

Sheilvina,

Thanks for the info I will print it out but I do have a question what

do you consider intensive therapy. My son goes to a speech path

twice a week for 1 hour each day and then he goes to the ish

Rites speech path 2 days a week for 1/2 hour each day. I also work

with him at home every day.

Sheilvina

[Guest guest]

WOW! That is intensive speech therapy! You are doing well.

Pam

> Thanks for the info I will print it out but I do have a question

what

> do you consider intensive therapy. My son goes to a speech path

> twice a week for 1 hour each day and then he goes to the ish

> Rites speech path 2 days a week for 1/2 hour each day. I also

work

> with him at home every day.

> Sheilvina