Lissa

What did you have to do in speech therapy?

I had speech therapy at school for 2 years when I was 11-13 years old. It was mainly focusing on me trying to say certain words such as "S", "SH", "CH" and getting me to listen.

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dogmom

I had problem pronouncing those consonant clusters too and also thing like 'w', 'th', and especially 'r' among others. We played lotta Memory with cards - like, u pick one and I pick another same, except before my turn I had to pronounce something a certain way.

rjcon88

I took speech therapy from the time I was in kindergarten up until I dropped out in 10th grade. Always the same thing, memory card games, reading out loud, repeating words I couldn't pronounce correctly over and over again. Never could pronounce the CH sound right... it sounds like SH, so I made sure I never said chitty-chitty bang bang! Seriously I got detention for swearing!

rajagiri3

speech therapy is very essential for anyone.

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whatdidyousay!

My dad tried to give me speech lessons when I was 4 years old! My dad was born in Russisa and they did not use 'th' in their language. Dad would sit at table with me and tell me to count to 3 . Dad would say " one , two , Tree! " I would have to say it back to my dad just the way he did or he would get mad.When I said one , two , Tree my dad would say good girl! I sound just like him and that was wonderful to dad! My older sister and brother would be standing in the door way the whole time listening and tireding not to LOL!

Driving Miss Daisy

It is a cute memory you have.

MoonDrifter

I am 22 years old. My mom and sis still gives me speech therapy. I don't like it, but they want me to keep up with my speech and not mumble anymore.

shel90

Getting speech therapy in middle school and high school was a huge waste of my time.

It was all repetitive. Was very useless.

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I had speech therapy from 16 months to Senior year. I hated it... I always dread the speech therapy.

I always had problem with letter Z.... I can't say Zoo good... when I say Zoo... it sounds like scoo.

My speech therapy teacher Missy always had words on the list and makes me practice saying those words. If I pass it, then I move on to more words. If I don't pass it, she would make flash cards and makes me keep practicing it. Then at end of the school year, I'm to take IEP test.... go through some kind of book that shows pictures and she would say a word and I have to point one out of four photos that matches the word or the meaning. God that was boring as hell and I hated it!

I'm just so grateful that I'm DONE with speech therapy... had that enough in my life... I mean 17 years of my life, I have been doing/dealing with speech therapy.

But if there's a time that I mispronounce the word or don't get the meaning, Dad would correct me on it, no matter how old I am. He still does it to this day.

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Pepsi

I had speech therapy when I was 7 to 8 years old my mother had me pull out because she said I started talking funny

Lissa

What did she mean you started talking funny?

I think my speech therapist let me stopped going because i was getting bored of it. At the last session she was lecturing me and saying that I have to remember how to pronouce words with the correct letters e.g sh , ch , s etc as i get older my brain wont use them blah blah. I don't really care because I know people can understand me and if they don't I can repeat it until they get it or write it down if i have to which never happens

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VamPyroX

I had speech therapy when I was in elementary school. When I entered junior high school, my speech therapist told me I didn't need it any more.

Everyone is different.

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Babyblue

I had speech therapy since Kindergarten 'til 12th grade.

Sometimes, I liked it sometimes, I did not. I thought of it as a way of getting out of the classroom at school.

Did it help. I feel it did help me. I actually practiced what I was taught in Speech.

I had a hard time pronouncing words, especially words with silent letters.

Everyone is different.

JClarke

had speech therapy when I was 3 or 4 years old.

Pepsi

My mother had a hard time dealing with my hearing loss. she could not accept it. It was one of her ways to keep me out of speech class so she said I was talking funny that I needed to get pull out

whatdidyousay!

I had one speech teacher when I was 15. The woman told she was a hillbilly and that she the only person in her family to go to college. She was the best teacher I ever had! She would read a book to me with no voice and I had to tell her what she read! She would also sit sideway and had me try to read her lips! She also help with sounds like th sh ch . When I was finish taking lessons I could read lips from the front and sideway of a person face!

sarahkhan

I know, I am too late to answer to this thread.....please excuse me for this....
I had speech therapist when i was not even admitted at school, most probably at the age of 4 years old.Mostly was sorts of games, listening to sounds(like" hey turn around, and raise your hand if you can hear the sound! BEEP!)
then i dropped it, the reason is unknown to me.
Then again i had my speech theraphy at age of 10 and contimued for ext three years....like you deaflissa, I did s,sh,ch , and z and i was forced to repeat those boring word again and again.

Loghead

I had a speech therapist that I went to quite frequently when I was really really little (under 5). We are still sort of in contact with her just to let her know how I'm doing. I didn't spend too long in speech therapy because I really didn't need it. I still worked on speech therapy with a deaf & hard of hearing teacher in the primary grades but then they stopped. I have two very well-spoken parents and I have been told that I am also well-spoken.

Cheri

I had speech therapy since growing up, not sure of the age I start. I did liked it because it helps me pronounce words correctly, without speech, I wouldn't be speaking or using my voice or wouldn't knew how to pronounce words correctly.

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Pinky

I had speech therapy at 3 years old until 14 years old. It was frustrate to me because i can't hear my voice with OLD HA. First speech therapy was nice, second was bitch, third therapist is my favorite, 4th is my favorite therapist, 5th was nice lady, the last 2 bitch speech therapy at deaf school. I stopped take speech therapy when I was freshman. I didn't like my last speech therapist with bad attitude. So I gave it up on speech until now. Because the hearing aids are not help to hear my voice enough. The people think my voice speech sound funny.

Now I can hear my voice with CI. I can do my best to find a new speech therapy. I will curious what the word sound like. I can hear people's call me with name and rhythms.

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deafbajagal

Memories of speech therapy made me seek out psychological therapy later in life.

Overall, it was a horrible experience for me. To answer the OP's question, we focused on nearly all of the sounds. I sat there and repeated (if I could) whatever the SLP was saying. Boring. Then I put a star by my name on a chart...never knew what the purpose of it was. I stopped going in 7th grade...lied my way out of it by joining choir, of all things. Ironically, choir helped my speech improve tremendously.

Daredevel7

I've had two speech therapists that I've been seeing for a long time. from ~3 years old till 15ish. I still had refresher courses until I went to college, but it was also to see her as a friend. (I still speak to both of them.)

What we did varied with age. From 3-5 years old, it was mostly puzzle games. No speech correction other than asking me to say the full sentence (i.e. Say "I would like to have that sticker, please." instead of "THAT ONE!"). From 5-8ish years old, it was more about building my vocabulary and learning how to say them. Then afterwards, it was about speech correction. I would recite essays and she would correct me if I said something wrong.

It was fun and incredibly useful for me.

TheWriteAlex

I had speech therapy all the way from kindergarten to high school graduation, every week or every other week. We only focused on the sibilant sounds, since I was unable to hear them after the age of 5, but all other speech sounds formed naturally for me, even though I now hear nothing past 1000hz (slope begins at 250hz).

I can't say I enjoyed speech therapy, though I did have a couple of good therapists who made it fun. The big issue for me was that I would be pulled out of my regular classroom and had to go across the school to the speech therapist's room, and it always made me self-conscious and feel different from the other kids, especially when they would ask me, "Where did you go?" I never knew how to explain it to them without feeling like I was retarded or something, so I usually just gave a vague answer about meeting with a teacher.

When I was in high school, we focused more on vocabulary (like Daredevel). We used SAT vocab words and practice exercises, so I was simultaneously studying for the test and working on my speech at the same time. It was very useful, and for that I will always be thankful to my therapist.

Lissa

But in primary school I did have informal speech therapy, it was not by a SALT but it was by the TOD who was also the deputy head of the school. She used to pull each child one at a time out of class once a week or so, and used to take us to her room. We used to play games and just talk to her. She used to video us so we could see our progress. I used to love it.

Also we had an additional speech lesson 1-1 with our class teacher on a friday mornings.

But the weird thing is that I only had proper SALT AFTER I got implanted and not before.

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faire_jour

That is what all of Miss Kat's speech has been like. They also sing a lot, read books and play games. All for building vocab and helping her to use spoken language appropriatly, and to listen to what the other person is saying.

souggy

Speech therapy... I have a mixed reaction to it.

I don't like having my speech corrected orally. If it is written out phonetically, then I can correct it. But I don't like it when people say my speech is wrong and try to get me to repeat it without explaining on paper how to say them out.

Now, my early speech therapy was focused on making the right phones, develop self-check methods. That I didn't mind. We didn't really play any games. We focused more on making sounds more than actual vocabulary.

However when I went to a new school under a different group of professionals, all the therapies focused on was saying the words properly. It got me to be such a perfectionist that I shuddered and would cringe or recoil whenever I know I said a word wrong, then be embarrassed by it.

We were told to sit still, not move, be perfectly upright and to be able to say every word properly. I was forbidden from using ASL. At that time, I was introduced to cued speech without being educated on how to read cued speech. So I was baffled at their hand movements. As a result, the progress I made as a kid backslid back to how I was talking before getting speech therapy.

I started to chill out a bit when I was given a different type of therapy, similar to the one I was given when I was a kid before the change in program. There, I learned to be more self-confident. I wasn't disciplined for making a mistake, although I wasn't allowed to advance to another lesson until the therapist felt like I was strong enough to do self-checks on my own. I was encouraged to move around a bit more and use ASL or PSE while talking. In fact, I don't think she ever reprimanded me for having a Plautdietsch accent, which I learned from my mom.

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