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<blockquote data-quote="buddy" data-source="post: 469408" data-attributes="member: 12886"><p>Speech Language Pathologist (SLP)'s all have similar training and have to take x number or clinic hours in each area (speech/artic, language, rehab, Easy Child.) and then take a national exam. Here is the thing, like any specialty within those things they can specialize...so some are more expert in voice and some in speech, some in early childhood, some in Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Many of us were the only ones recognizing and diagnosing kids with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) because when I started, there were no Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) teaching certificates. People didn't believe us (Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) was thougth to be rare and emotionally based) and kids with Aspergers were being called childhood schizophrenia, even though there was a huge difference in many areas. So if you get an OLDie like me or someone who just ended up working in an area/clinic where Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) is a huge part of their client base, they may be able to spot if it is more of a symptom thing or a daughter thing pretty quickly. I had student who was echolalic in American Sign Language, ...hard to convince people! But it was very very obvious if you have done it long enough. </p><p></p><p>For my difficult child, I always specifically told a clinic what kind of therapist I was looking for and told them I wanted someone who had a lot of experience with kids with Autism. If you did that, even if he didn't have autism, they would be very good at early childhood lang. delay (have to know that to know the differences so you would be pretty safe that both issues would be covered well) and they could see if the symptoms are related to autism. And yes, there is therapy that helps especially if the function for the individual child is to rehearse language or to buy time to process or formulate language. Helping a child address the underlying issue (putting sentences together, improving his understanding of language, Increasing vocabulary, helping him to request to get needs, learning how to go back and forth more than one turn in a conversation...etc.) Kids who are verbal may still be taught to use a non-verbal form of communication to augment communication while they are learning new skills, doesn't mean they will always use it but it can be very very useful in lowering stress and then allowing them to communicate more effectively. If the function of it is a comforting kind of thing, then working on other anxiety issues/sensory issues etc. along with improving communication with sp. ed. teacher, therapist and Occupational Therapist (OT) may help too. </p><p></p><p>Everyone has their "thing" just like a doctor first is trained in general and then develops a specialty. While it is not in their actual job label, Occupational Therapist (OT), PT and Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) folks typically specialize too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="buddy, post: 469408, member: 12886"] Speech Language Pathologist (SLP)'s all have similar training and have to take x number or clinic hours in each area (speech/artic, language, rehab, Easy Child.) and then take a national exam. Here is the thing, like any specialty within those things they can specialize...so some are more expert in voice and some in speech, some in early childhood, some in Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Many of us were the only ones recognizing and diagnosing kids with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) because when I started, there were no Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) teaching certificates. People didn't believe us (Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) was thougth to be rare and emotionally based) and kids with Aspergers were being called childhood schizophrenia, even though there was a huge difference in many areas. So if you get an OLDie like me or someone who just ended up working in an area/clinic where Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) is a huge part of their client base, they may be able to spot if it is more of a symptom thing or a daughter thing pretty quickly. I had student who was echolalic in American Sign Language, ...hard to convince people! But it was very very obvious if you have done it long enough. For my difficult child, I always specifically told a clinic what kind of therapist I was looking for and told them I wanted someone who had a lot of experience with kids with Autism. If you did that, even if he didn't have autism, they would be very good at early childhood lang. delay (have to know that to know the differences so you would be pretty safe that both issues would be covered well) and they could see if the symptoms are related to autism. And yes, there is therapy that helps especially if the function for the individual child is to rehearse language or to buy time to process or formulate language. Helping a child address the underlying issue (putting sentences together, improving his understanding of language, Increasing vocabulary, helping him to request to get needs, learning how to go back and forth more than one turn in a conversation...etc.) Kids who are verbal may still be taught to use a non-verbal form of communication to augment communication while they are learning new skills, doesn't mean they will always use it but it can be very very useful in lowering stress and then allowing them to communicate more effectively. If the function of it is a comforting kind of thing, then working on other anxiety issues/sensory issues etc. along with improving communication with sp. ed. teacher, therapist and Occupational Therapist (OT) may help too. Everyone has their "thing" just like a doctor first is trained in general and then develops a specialty. While it is not in their actual job label, Occupational Therapist (OT), PT and Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) folks typically specialize too. [/QUOTE]
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