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Posted by Danielle Bean in Family on Friday, December 16, 2011 7:00 AM
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Just a cute story to share. I teach first grade at our parish elementary school. Yesterday at lunch time, little Daniel came in the classroom.
Daniel: “Teacher, me and Josue were playing outside…”
Me: “Josue and I were playing outside.”
Daniel: “No you weren’t. You were in the classroom.”
I stand corrected.
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I am wondering if anyone has experience with doing speech therapy through a virtual school. I am trying to find a good solution for my youngest (5) daughter, who is enrolled this year at our local preschool. Next year she will be old enough for Kindergarten, but I love homeschooling both my girls and don’t really want to send her to our local public for a variety of reasons, including 2 hours of bus riding everyday. We don’t have any private schools. I’m finding that a lot of the Catholic umbrella schools (Seton, Kolbe) don’t offer any speech therapy support, but there is a virtual charter that can offer both virtual speech services via webcam, and live speech services that might be able to work for us. I’m pretty much okay with the curriculum offered (K12) and I know that she’ll get a Catholic world view from the things I do with the girls together now (history/religion). I am a little nervous about the idea of putting her in the public school system (though, I guess she technically is already, since she has an IEP) and I just don’t know enough about virtual schools in general, and their special ed services in particular. Any comments if you use a virtual school? Or any schools that I might want to look into? Other advice on dealing with speech problems outside of a school? Thanks!
My only experience with speech therapy with the public school was thru ECSE and it went fine. But, we did need to continue once he graduated from there and he no longer qualified for the free support. Our medical insurance paid for speech therapy and we had a therapist come to our home for a year. [you do need to drive to most speech therapists but there was someone in our area that had her own home based speech therapy business and she went to the clients’ homes] You might want to see if you qualify for something like that?
Not a homeschooler but I did send my girls to parochial school up until this year and they both received speech therapy for free through the public schools. Here in NJ, it is handled at a county level. The speech therapist came to their school and did the weekly therapy. If we were homeschoolers, I don’t know - we might have had to go to the school just for the weekly appointment or perhaps the therapist would have met us at home or elsewhere. I looked into private speech therapy but with our insurance, the only therapy covered was when they lose speech, not when they have pronounciation issues. Good luck!
I also have a speech language question. My 5 yr. old’s speech and language were tested recently at preschool. The results of the “speech” portion of the testing indicate she is “below age-level expectations.” The speech language pathologist’s written comments are she “exhibits several sound substitutions. These include /t/ for /ch/; /s/ for /sh/; /z/ for /j/; /w/ for /l/; /w/ for /r/; /f/ for /th/. She also simplifies many blends, that is, omits one member of the blend, i.e. /p/ for /sp/.”
Language, auditory perception, and hearing are all normal for her age.
We are homeschoolers and my daughter will begin kindergarten at home in January.
Can anybody suggest a resource we can use at home to help her with her speech? Any recommendations would be appreciated.
Talk to your local school district. In my state, preschoolers can get free speech therapy through the public school, ( if the speech delay is significant enough). ALso, at least in my home district, homeschoolers can receive speech therapy at the public school.
Also. certain sounds develop at certain ages- my understanding is that the /r/ sound does not come until later- My daughter is 7, has recently been discharged from speech therapy, but still does not have a perfect /r/ sound.
My son got picked up at our parochial school by a mini school bus and was driven to and from speech therapy at the public school for free. Perhaps since you homeschool, they could come to your home to pick up? Just an idea. It did take quite a bit of time out of the day, but it was only once a week and he ate his lunch on the bus!
No private speech therapists in our area - I do have a lead on a woman who might do private therapy that works at a hospital about an hours drive from home. We may end up doing that. The virtual charter that I am looking at is trying to get a contract with someone in the town where the hospital is located, so I am guessing it may be the same woman, since it is a small city. Our insurance will only cover speech therapy if it is from an injury or autism, neither of which is the case with our daughter. In our state (Colorado) homeschoolers have to be allowed to play sports, but are not eligible for special education services, which ticks me off, but there’s not much I can do about it, so there is no chance with our local school (because I went round and round with the speech therapist there before I relented and enrolled her in preschool this year) and they definitely wouldn’t do a special bus pickup because we are 16 miles from town with almost half of that distance being dirt roads.
We also have a speech delay in our DS who is 2. Contact your local school district/educational service district or even your family doctor. In our state there is a program for birth - 3 that has a SPL come to do home visits. Since our son has developmental axpria (his fine motor skills of the lips, tongue and mouth aren’t there) He’ll even get speech therapy 3 times a week once he turns 3. (Twice during preschool at the school and once at home).
I also live in a rural area, so where there is a will there is a way. I would highly recommend sitting in on the lessons, as then you can practice the same techniques.
For majellamom:
Last year my preschooler had speech therapy through our district where I brought him to a local school once a week for 30 min. This year, we enrolled with a virtual charter school with the K12 curriculum. We had a phone meeting discussing his IEP and then they assigned us a speech therapist who comes to our home once a week. It is wonderful. I don’t have to take my 3 other children to the appointments. It is really a home-based learning environment! Any other questions, feel free to email me: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
I am at the end of my rope with my adolescent son whom I have homeschooled for 6 years. It was never easy with him since he has anxiety issues and “oppositional disorder.” Odd thing is, when he was still in school he was a model student and not oppositional with the teacher. I took him home for religious reasons but he has always fought learning from me. It has gotten worse and worse despite the addition of tutors, online classes and co-op classes. He is very bright and advanced in his studies despite all the fighting. He just won’t do anything I say without an argument and won’t believe anything I say is true (although if another adult says it he accepts it). I am so stressed and over time it has taken a toll on me as well as our family home life. Counseling didn’t help told me he should either go on medication to “make him more open to therapy” or I should send him back to school. We don’t want to go the medication route just so we can continue homeschooling so I think I will have to put him back in school. I just can’t take one more day of this! Does anyone have any advice?
Hi “Help,”—just a thought from a homeschool (K-12) grad. If you took your son out of school primarily for religious regions, what’s going to ultimately be more harmful to his faith: being in a secular situation, or having a contentious relationship with his mom? If it’s really true that he’s more accepting of teaching from other authority figures, then maybe homeschooling isn’t the right approach for you…and that’s totally ok. 
Thank you Jessica. I guess I just needed permission. Homeschoolers I know take a “homeschool at all costs” attitude and think whatever is going on at home can’t be as bad as what is going on at school. But they haven’t spent a day in my shoes let alone 6 years. All the suggestions they have given me for fixing the situation I have tried but they have all failed. The most hurtful thing is when they imply that if I am deficient in the virtue of patience and if I were to improve that we could get through homeschooling.
Oh, Help, by all means send him! I was very hesitant to send my 14 year old to public high school after 8 years of catholic grammar school but it has been great. He’s doing well and getting good grades. Your values will come across louder and clearer if you let go and allow his needs to come first. Impatient mommies don’t emulate Jesus very well, I’ve come to discover. Bring peace to your household, you deserve it. And all decisions are not permenant. Choices can be changed. Try it. If it works, great! If not, you have the option to try something else. Nothing is written in stone. I’ll keep you in my prayers tonight. You sound like you could use some prayers of peace.
About the speech therapy problems, I came across this curriculum called Jolly Phonics, while I was working in a daycare. They introduced it to the toddler group and continued up to the preschool. It comes with the cd and you can sing the songs while reading the book. They have a website but I was able to locate them at my local teacher store (Scholars Choice in Canada). Another thought I have, is go to your local university, and if they offer the speech therapy program, maybe they would like to use your child as a real life experience. Your child gets the help they need and that benefits a student as well. Good luck.
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