Did you go to speech therapy as a kid?

whatdidyousay! said:
My dad gave me speech lessons too! He sat me at kitchen table and told me to say "one, two, 'tree'!" Dad was born in Russia and they do not use the 'th' sound! So I would copy my dad and repeat " one , two, tree." and dad would say good girl! My older sister and brother would be in the doorway ROFLTAO! Dad was so happy to have me sound like him!
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That's a cute story ;-)
 
CSign said:
That's a cute story ;-)
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I laugh about it now , I had no idea dad was saying 'Three' wrong!! LOL!
To this day I have have a real hard with my "th' sound! I when a speech therapist about 3 years ago and she could not understand why I was having such a hard time saying the "th' sound until I told this story.
 
CSign said:
His implication was that if parents don't use ASL with their child first, then they run the risk of being abused. Quite a horrific, and incorrect statement. If someone is an abuser, then they are an abuser.

I certainly would have never slapped my child if he didn't produce speech accurately, or couldn't speak. If a parent loves their child and understands the implications of hearing loss they wouldn't do that.

Bott- please don't take my above comment and relate it to your experience. I'm sure your dad loved you, but he was clearly misguided and perhaps also suffered abuse as a child?
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of course!!! you'd think like that. :roll:

To clarify just for you... if a child isn't using ASL first.. he will obviously go thru hardship just like everybody else. This isn't really necessary if a child is doing ASL-first approach.

Any more question? Is there anything you'd like me to clarify?
 
Speedy Hawk said:
Did you go to speech therapy as a kid?
Yeah when my parents found out I was Deaf about 3 to 16.

How many times per week did you take speech therapy?
2 times, sometimes 3 times per week. As I moved from my hometown to new town, it dropped to 1 per week, when I went to high school for final 2 years it dropped to 1 per month.
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Hmm I don't remember how often I had speech in nursery school but I do rememeber that I had it 3x a week from first to 7th grade then it was weekly till 10th grade.
How did you feel about going to speech therapy when you were a kid? Were it fun? Were it boring? were it tiring?
I hated it. I just cannot understand the speech therapist is saying. I always fail it badly esp when she covers her mouth for me to try hear words when it impossible for me.

Only time I liked going speech therapy when it is not speech therapy. It was when I was in new mainstream school in new town, my whole class bullied me, teachers didn't care, bullies was teachers favourite students. Speech therapy lady I had took me out of class as many times she can and we play games, I didn't have to my voice or anything, just play games. She isn't allowed tell staff I was being picked on, she got no power to stop bullies cos she not one of school staff, just speech therapy comes in few days a week for few hours.

Do you have any good speech therapy memories? Or Bad speech therapy memories?
Bad memories. Read above.


Do you plan to send your kids to speech therapy, just like what you did as a kid? Not like I did. If I had kids, it be 1 hour max per week and will stop any time kid wants and it got be fun and no covering mouth, no telling kid is wrong all times, do NOT expect kid get it right 1st time.

If kid don't want one I will stop it.
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See post 6 for my feelings. As for my kids if they were deaf I would have them do it for an hour or less per week and if they want to drop the speach therapy , I would let them drop it.
 
Now, my daughter went to speech therapy starting at age 2 until age 12. Both at public school (3 times a week) and at an outside agency due to her SSI and that was 3 times a week. She could still benefit from it now, but I am not going to push her. If I do, she will put up the mental brick wall and just sit in stony silence. That's how much she hated speech therapy.
 
CSign said:
I guess my point is, if a parent is going to abuse their child they will do it regardless of whether or not a child spoke or signed.

I think that he is making an extreme exaggeration of reality. Most parents would not hit their children because they did not articulate a word properly.
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I only know my own experience. I don't know what would happen to anyone else.

Frisky just asked for our experience. That's what happened to me.
 
Frisky Feline said:
Did you go to speech therapy as a kid?
Yes, I had speech therapy at my private, religious hearing school (I was the only deaf one).

How many times per week did you take speech therapy?
I know it was weekly for a long time in elementary school, but I can't remember now if it was once a week or once a day and I can only remember clearly going during the fifth and sixth grade.

How did you feel about going to speech therapy when you were a kid? Were it fun? Were it boring? were it tiring?
I hated it! It felt nice getting out of class, but it felt embarrassing as they would interrupt the class as my teacher was trying to teach and make it a point to everyone where I was going.

Do you have any good speech therapy memories? Or Bad speech therapy memories?
I tried hard during the sessions, but hated all the things they made me do. They kept having me perfect sounds I couldn't hear myself making; they made me work at understanding them while they played a tape that produced noises so that it seemed like we were in a noisy restaurant or similar environment; and they also had me try to understand them while making me face away from them (no lip-reading!!!).

Do you plan to send your kids to speech therapy, just like what you did as a kid? Any suggestions for this improvement of speech therapy methods for kids?
Don't know yet. If it ever came to it and I decided that my child would have speech therapy, I would have the place offering their services show me their methods, introduce me to their therapist(s), and introduce me to some of the children being treated by them to get their view on it (not the children's parents).
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See my answers above in bold.
 
Seems like mine is the one of the few that allowed lipreading all the time. Who else here had their speech therapist allow lipreading?
 
I took speech therapy for a short while as a young child. Once a week for a one hour session during school.

My parents decided for whatever reason that it wasn't needed. However, to this day my dad will still correct me on my speech. I'm 27 years old, my speech is as probably as good as it will ever get.

I never learned ASL growing up as my parents were told that it would be a detriment. Can't ya tell my parents were fed a lot of audist crap?
 
Bottesini said:
I only know my own experience. I don't know what would happen to anyone else.

Frisky just asked for our experience. That's what happened to me.
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I know that's what you were responding to.

I was trying to address the statement Jiro made that if parents used ASL, abuse would be avoided. My point was that if someone is going to abuse their child, they would do it regardless of whether or not ASL was used.

I'm sorry your post was brought into it.
 
But that's because you were responding to her post ? (Her original one, anyway.)
 
CSign said:
I know that's what you were responding to.

I was trying to address the statement Jiro made that if parents used ASL, abuse would be avoided. My point was that if someone is going to abuse their child, they would do it regardless of whether or not ASL was used.

I'm sorry your post was brought into it.
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See Post #43.
 
Oh boy, here we go again. Anyone want some popcorn while I'm in the kitchen?? :popcorn:
 
I remember I had speech classes in kindergarten. It was a lot of fun b/c teachers made them fun. They did very good with me. I had trouble with Rs,Ws and Ts. Shoot, I still have trouble with Ts,today. I remember some teachers got frustrated with my Ts. Oh well. :lol:
 
DeafTim said:
I remember I had speech classes in kindergarten. It was a lot of fun b/c teachers made them fun. They did very good with me. I had trouble with Rs,Ws and Ts. Shoot, I still have trouble with Ts,today. I remember some teachers got frustrated with my Ts. Oh well. :lol:
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Don't feel bad, I still have trouble with my R's and W's sometimes.
 
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