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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 528596" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>MWM, you are exactly right from my limited understanding of Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) ssues. I am having a super hard time trying to figure out exactly how the Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) cannot see that this is V;s problem. Around here there are a lot of kids who still cannot write more than a few letters going into first grade. They are exposed earlier, but if they cannot do it, they sure are not expected to have to learn phonics right away. It has to be clear to the Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) that V has not got a clue what he is talking about when he is talking about a specific letter. The problems wth saying the words also ahve to be clear, at least to some extent. That is why this seems so baffling and like the guy has his own agenda here. </p><p></p><p>Heck, we had a friend who's fourth child created his own language. His sisters understood it, esp the one five years older than he was, so as long as she was home he didn't NEED to speak English. It wasn't a few sounds that stood for something - it was a <em>language. </em>This was identified when he was almost two and he got free in home Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) and free Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) every day at a subsidized daycare so that this could be addressed very early. It really helped but no one ever said he HAD to learn the to read and write the letters before he could say the sounds and basic words and understand basic words. My cousins who lived around the corner from us in OH had twins who did the same thing and we finally got them into Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) at age 3 1/2 through the child find program and they made progress but at 5 could in NO way do what this Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) is demanding that V do. They learned SPOKEN language and they learned to comprehend and speak basic words before they were expected to do any writing. It wasn't until age 7 or 8 that there was ANY real demand for them to write letters that other people could understand. I just cannot figure out WHY it is soooo all important to this Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) for V to do written language work before he is doing spoken language and before he is COMPREHENDING language clearly. because that seems to be a part of the problem - cannot speak clearly to be understood and cannot clearly understand what people want of him. </p><p></p><p>Buddy, have you ever heard of demands like this being placed on a child who is having problems with speaking the language, with understanding spoken language, and who is developmentally behind in language the way V is??? It truly seems bizarre and in my opinion is a recipe for V becoming aggressive with this man and his demands. I think the Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) is pretty lucky that V hasn't bitten him by now. NOT that V is violent, but any kid in that situation would be so frustrated that it would be a totally normal, expectable reaction, in my opinion. I have to say that if Jess were a kid in the room that was 5 like V she would probably have told the Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) to stop being such and idiot and possibly hit him herself FOR V. She would not fight back for herself, but she would have no problems doing it to give a break to another kid that she thought was being picked on unreasonably, esp a kid who had a hard time expressing himself or understanding the person making the demands.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 528596, member: 1233"] MWM, you are exactly right from my limited understanding of Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) ssues. I am having a super hard time trying to figure out exactly how the Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) cannot see that this is V;s problem. Around here there are a lot of kids who still cannot write more than a few letters going into first grade. They are exposed earlier, but if they cannot do it, they sure are not expected to have to learn phonics right away. It has to be clear to the Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) that V has not got a clue what he is talking about when he is talking about a specific letter. The problems wth saying the words also ahve to be clear, at least to some extent. That is why this seems so baffling and like the guy has his own agenda here. Heck, we had a friend who's fourth child created his own language. His sisters understood it, esp the one five years older than he was, so as long as she was home he didn't NEED to speak English. It wasn't a few sounds that stood for something - it was a [I]language. [/I]This was identified when he was almost two and he got free in home Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) and free Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) every day at a subsidized daycare so that this could be addressed very early. It really helped but no one ever said he HAD to learn the to read and write the letters before he could say the sounds and basic words and understand basic words. My cousins who lived around the corner from us in OH had twins who did the same thing and we finally got them into Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) at age 3 1/2 through the child find program and they made progress but at 5 could in NO way do what this Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) is demanding that V do. They learned SPOKEN language and they learned to comprehend and speak basic words before they were expected to do any writing. It wasn't until age 7 or 8 that there was ANY real demand for them to write letters that other people could understand. I just cannot figure out WHY it is soooo all important to this Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) for V to do written language work before he is doing spoken language and before he is COMPREHENDING language clearly. because that seems to be a part of the problem - cannot speak clearly to be understood and cannot clearly understand what people want of him. Buddy, have you ever heard of demands like this being placed on a child who is having problems with speaking the language, with understanding spoken language, and who is developmentally behind in language the way V is??? It truly seems bizarre and in my opinion is a recipe for V becoming aggressive with this man and his demands. I think the Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) is pretty lucky that V hasn't bitten him by now. NOT that V is violent, but any kid in that situation would be so frustrated that it would be a totally normal, expectable reaction, in my opinion. I have to say that if Jess were a kid in the room that was 5 like V she would probably have told the Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) to stop being such and idiot and possibly hit him herself FOR V. She would not fight back for herself, but she would have no problems doing it to give a break to another kid that she thought was being picked on unreasonably, esp a kid who had a hard time expressing himself or understanding the person making the demands. [/QUOTE]
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