requesting ideas

[Leslie Tolliver]

Hello all,
I am Leslie Tolliver a speech pathologist who works at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville Illinois, Speech-Language and Hearing Center. I have worked as a both a teacher and a speech pathologist for those who are deaf....today I received a request for assistance from a mother (who is deaf) asking for help/ideas so that she can support her hearing daughter's speech, (her daughter is in speech therapy).
The mom wants to be able to help her young daughter complete her speech homework and in addition to help her with her speech.

Can I have your advice regarding this situation? I am tempted to offer this mother services, focusing on her daughter's speech work so that she can further support and help her daughter- do you feel this would insult the mom? Do you feel this would be of help for the mom? Have any of you experienced this in your own lives?
Sorry this is so long- any information or experiences with your children would be very welcome! Thanks so much!
Leslie Tolliver

 

[dereksbicycles]

Maybe have Mom and kid attend KODA event or something. I am sure Mom would be able to meet hearing Moms who would be able to help out. Just my 2 cent.

 

[MangaReader]

How would that be insulting the mom if she is the one that asked for assistance.

I am deaf and my sons are hearing. When they were in preschool, I was told that they needed speech therapy since they weren't learning speech properly from me even though their father is hearing. They went to speech therapy and improved themselves without my help. I could not help them obviously because I can't hear. Speech therapy seemed enough alone. They stopped speech therapy around 3-4th grade. They are now teens and are doing fine. If the mother wants to help and wants to participate in the speech training for her daughter then I guess you could help the mom on telling her what is needed to help the daughter because she has no way of knowing what's needed to be corrected. I recall my sons working on their 'r' at one point.

Before I even had children I assumed that speech therapy was only for deaf people. I was surprised to learn that there are speech therapies for hearing kids. My sons weren't the only ones. There were many hearing kids with hearing parents taking speech therapy. I even asked the speech pathologist why is that since the parents are hearing. She explained that the parents probably don't have time to teach the child how to pronounce words correctly or don't know how to do so, so it falls to speech therapy to correct it. Usually takes a few years.

 

[whatdidyousay!]

How would that be insulting the mom if she is the one that asked for assistance.

I am deaf and my sons are hearing. When they were in preschool, I was told that they needed speech therapy since they weren't learning speech properly from me even though their father is hearing. They went to speech therapy and improved themselves without my help. I could not help them obviously because I can't hear. Speech therapy seemed enough alone. They stopped speech therapy around 3-4th grade. They are now teens and are doing fine. If the mother wants to help and wants to participate in the speech training for her daughter then I guess you could help the mom on telling her what is needed to help the daughter because she has no way of knowing what's needed to be corrected. I recall my sons working on their 'r' at one point.

Before I even had children I assumed that speech therapy was only for deaf people. I was surprised to learn that there are speech therapies for hearing kids. My sons weren't the only ones. There were many hearing kids with hearing parents taking speech therapy. I even asked the speech pathologist why is that since the parents are hearing. She explained that the parents probably don't have time to teach the child how to pronounce words correctly or don't know how to do so, so it falls to speech therapy to correct it. Usually takes a few years.

I was told my daughter needed some speech lessons because she was copying my speech . My daughter is hearing so it did not take too long for her to get rid of my HOH accent. I was not insulted when I was when I was told my child needed speech lessons, I was glad her teacher notice it and that it only from listening to me. I wanted my child to get the best education
she could in school and not get cheated like I did in school by sending me to reject classes.

 

[Bebonang]

I was not aware of my only hearing son's speech problem until the school notified me that my son had copied my deaf accent of being mispronounce. I was shocked the same like MangaReader that the hearing child had to learned to pronounced the correct words and even sentences, too.

Thank you, MangaReader, for clearing that up understanding where hearing parents did not teach their hearing children how to pronounce the words and even sentences. Very interesting to know that. Cool.

 

[ambrosia]

How would that be insulting the mom if she is the one that asked for assistance.

I am deaf and my sons are hearing. When they were in preschool, I was told that they needed speech therapy since they weren't learning speech properly from me even though their father is hearing. They went to speech therapy and improved themselves without my help. I could not help them obviously because I can't hear. Speech therapy seemed enough alone. They stopped speech therapy around 3-4th grade. They are now teens and are doing fine. If the mother wants to help and wants to participate in the speech training for her daughter then I guess you could help the mom on telling her what is needed to help the daughter because she has no way of knowing what's needed to be corrected. I recall my sons working on their 'r' at one point.



Before I even had children I assumed that speech therapy was only for deaf people. I was surprised to learn that there are speech therapies for hearing kids. My sons weren't the only ones. There were many hearing kids with hearing parents taking speech therapy. I even asked the speech pathologist why is that since the parents are hearing. She explained that the parents probably don't have time to teach the child how to pronounce words correctly or don't know how to do so, so it falls to speech therapy to correct it. Usually takes a few years.

A common thing a hearing kid would need speech therapy for would a lisp. My daughter had one, I had no idea because it's an s/sh sound. I don't know why my exhusband never told me, but they put her in speech therapy in kindergarten. She went once a day for a short time and her lisp was gone before the end of the year.

But a lisp usually had a physical cause, over/underbites, the tongue protruding past the teeth.

To the OP, if she's asking sure. I personally know I wouldn't be of much help doing that but if she thinks she can, why not?