Speech Therapy

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I'm curious if anyone has come across any good studies on the importance of continued speech therapy in DHH students. I've come across some, but I'm looking for more.

I've been going back and forth with the district- they don't want to provide it because he's not in the lower 7th percentile and his errors are "age appropriate.". He does articulate well, but when he is reading longer passages he starts to almost mumble his words. His teacher agrees he could use some additional help. He's been getting minimal ST (15 min/once a week) so basically nothing.

We want to ensure we adress his errors now, so that when he's older he doesn't have to have intensive speech services.

I'm not looking for negative comments about Speech Therapy- my son enjoys it and benefits from it. I understand for some speech isn't appropriate, but for my son it is.

Any thoughts or links to studies would be appreciated.
 
If you want to address articulation errors, and the school has determined that his errors are age appropriate and do not need remedial work, it will be up to you to provide those services privately.
 
What are some of his articulation errors? Are they stuff like learning to say "th" or s? (in other words classic dhh articulation issues) The thing to really worry about is language...Even a lot of audilogically hoh kids have articualtion errors in elementary. I did myself.

As for reading long passages, I would say that is due more to fatigue...it can be hard to read out loud...remembering pitch, volumne, pronouncation AND reading. It is exactly like.....remember how in foriegn language class it was REALLY hard to remember how to pronounce the words correctly? It's the same for a deaf kid.....even one who has a lot of residual hearing.
One thing you could do is contact your local Deaf School and have him evaluated by the speech therapist to see what she thinks.
 
There are exercises he could do at home to build up his oral or chest resonance. Perhaps, maybe some of the therapists could provide more information?
 
Hi csign, I don't have specific studies to point to -- we've been focused on spoken and signed language development without much attention to the mechanics at this point and haven't looked into the traditional forms of speech therapy, but I've often found excellent advice and great studies referenced on the Raising Deaf Children site.
 
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