All About Speech Therapy
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If waiting time is too long. Then u might want to try private speech therapy. I can’t remember the names but there is at least one at Tanglin shopping center. My DS1 used to (until ard 3-4years old) confuse ‘g’ with ‘d’ … etc…We went and actually after just one session, his is able to correct that problem…Therapist told us it about the short/long tongue reason.
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I think it is called Brain Train at Tanglin Shopping Centre.
Another speech and language therapist centre worth looking into is Bridges in Communication. There are 2 main therapists and they are UK trained. I believed one of the therapist used to work for SGH (if not mistaken) and the other was with the Autism Resource Centre(also, if not mistaken). However, do note that the wait list is rather long at Bridges as the therapists are very dedicated and caring. -
Hi all,
Pls dont go to Brain Train. They have send out initiative week for free trial to me and I signed up. There are 3 sessions from Mon, Wed and Fri and I can attend any of the session when I can. I purposely told day off and send my son to the school this afternoon and was told that the lesson was cancelled. I was shock as after the confimation invite that the in charge has sent to me, I did not receive any later mail that inform us of any cancellation. She even came up with an excuse that nobody sign up with them so they have to call it off. But in her invite, she did not state that a quota has to reach before the class is confirmed.
Ended up I went there for nothing except wasting my leave, wasting effort to bring my son back, skip lunch at it was arrange at 1.30p.m its rush for me to pick my son up and bring him in time so I got to even skip lunch.
Its all poor planning, poor timing and poor followup. when I voiced my displease, the incharge simply give a lame excuse and say you can wait for the therapy to come in at the end of the day. What kind of attitude is that. And the staff at the front counter even give you an alien look as if they dont even know that there is any trial class happening in the centre and make me feel like I am embarassing myself to turn up for it.
It keep me wondering if the whole thing is a fake just to attract people to go there. -
iberis:
AGREE. I have VERY BAD experience w Brain Train too.Hi all,
Pls dont go to Brain Train. They have send out initiative week for free trial to me and I signed up.
I have a 3 year old Autistic child. I was enticed by their early intervention programme for special needs kid advertisement in (if i rem correctly) June's copy of singapore's CHILD magazine. The trial runs for a week... and if i rem correctly, the trial runs at a \"promotion rate of $100\" ... when i called to enquire, i was so disappointed when the \"adminstrator\" kept asking me questions instead of answering my questions. She kept asking me where i saw the advertisement and claimed she has no knowledge of such intervention programme...and went on to tell me they provide 1-to-1 therapy. I then told her i saw the AD in \"singapore's child\" , she doesn't seem to have heard of this mag & made me repeat 3 times...
Finally my patience run dry and i was going to hang up when she told me the \"in charge\" must have placed an AD...i then asked to speak to incharge instead but was told in-charge (IC) was \"outstationed\" ...when i asked for IC's return date, she said \"end of this month\"... i then said \"which means to say this trial is not happening cos u mentioned IC placed the AD and IC is outstationed & nobody seems to know anything abt this apart from your IC ...by the time IC is back , the trial dates will be over \" ... The lady on the line then apologised & asked for my number , clarifying that even tho IC is not in town, she does \"touch base\" via phone & again repeated she is really unaware of such programme ...so i gave her my number.... however , i only receive a call much later (trial week has passed) from a lady whom i assume is the IC (i didn't bother to even ask as i was no longer interested looking at how disorganised things were). The supposed IC said \" did u call some time ago enquiring about our centre? is there any \"particular therapy u r looking at\" ?? U see even a simple phone message was not passed properly (i enquired abt the early intervention programme; not any therapy)
I merely replied \" thanks for calling me, i am no longer interested. thanks again\" -
Hi
My 2.4 yrs old son is assessed with mild delay in speech by a speech therapist. Besides going to speech therapy which is 1 to 1, any class that is in a small group where he learns to interact? What other things can we do at home to help him? -
sheryl:
Is he in any childcare centre or playschool? Enrol him in one and with the social setting, he may be influenced by his peers to speak faster.Hi
My 2.4 yrs old son is assessed with mild delay in speech by a speech therapist. Besides going to speech therapy which is 1 to 1, any class that is in a small group where he learns to interact? What other things can we do at home to help him?
My mom believes in this, so even if we have family caregivers, we still insist on sending our kids to childcare once they reach 2yrs old. They pick up language skills and manners better there.
Surround him with cousins on weekends if you can as kids open up to kids. We adults are boring... -
sheryl:
hi, you can try out this preschool called stamford little geniuses in bugis. (http://www.stamford.edu.sg/genius) they are giving out free for the 1st month for new-comers.Hi
My 2.4 yrs old son is assessed with mild delay in speech by a speech therapist. Besides going to speech therapy which is 1 to 1, any class that is in a small group where he learns to interact? What other things can we do at home to help him?
my girl is studying there right now and its not bad. their teachers are very nice and caring. since its free, might as well try it out and see whether its suitable for your kid
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sheryl:
Talk, talk and talk.Hi
What other things can we do at home to help him?
Talk to your child about what you are doing at home. For instance, if you are drying your hair using a hairdryer and he is in the room, just talk to him about the process of drying your hair etc. Hopefully soon, curiosity will be aroused and he may want to touch the hairdryer and learn to operate himself and hopefully that is he would have picked up words like hairdryer or start asking questions ....
Talk to your child about your day at work or how you spent your day. My DH does that a lot. He actually shares what happened at work with DS everyday if he can. And so do I, like I tell him about my shopping experience at NTUC, what I bought etc ....
Talk to him about the cartoons he is watching on tv. Or the book you are reading to him. Tell him your views. Do you think that cartoon/book character is funny? Why etc ....
Just talk about anything under the sun. Not only are you helping him in his speech, you are helping him pick up general knowledge, firing up his imagination and teaching him to be self-aware. For instance \"boy, the hairdryer is not an instrument to play around with, its dangerous because ......\"
And yes, as another forummer suggested, you may want him to be surrounded with kids his age, ie cousins, neighbour's kids etc ...
Later, when you see some progress, then its time to ask ask and ask ...
ALL THE BEST :hugs: -
sheryl:
your speech therapist should have some exercises for you to practice at home; if not, ask him/her.Hi
My 2.4 yrs old son is assessed with mild delay in speech by a speech therapist. Besides going to speech therapy which is 1 to 1, any class that is in a small group where he learns to interact? What other things can we do at home to help him?
one of the 'exercises' that my ST got us to do is to ask questions about a book; ie, we don't have to read the storybook word by word, but we look at the picture and try to engage in a discussion with the child. if the child's sentences are not complete/proper, we will have to say it in the proper structure and get the child to repeat our sentence. key note is to only do it about 15min or half hour daily (depends on the child's attention span) and don't over do it as some speech-delayed kid may find it frustrating as they cannot grasp the sentence properly.
MHO.
another thing is to switch off the TV.
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sheryl:
Does he have receptive language difficulties, ie limited vocabulary & difficulties understanding sentences or explanations ? Receptive language difficulties can cause delays in speech.Hi
My 2.4 yrs old son is assessed with mild delay in speech by a speech therapist. Besides going to speech therapy which is 1 to 1, any class that is in a small group where he learns to interact? What other things can we do at home to help him?
If yes, then talk to him slowly using short picture books and objects. This has got to do with auditory (temporal) processing & memory difficulties, so it's best to speak slower & use short sentences.
If you are concerned abt expressive language difficulties (assuming he has some speech), work on
a) phonological awareness (sound) &
Some children have difficulties hearing sounds in speech. A phonics program can help them to process sounds better. But this is usu recommended for older kids. You can buy very simple phonics CD/DVD & get him to listen.
b) metalinguitic awareness
Stage 1 readers which have repetitive or elaborative sentence structures can also help a child have a better sense of how a sentence is constructed.
He's still quite young. It can be just a case of slower development. He may outgrow it by 3 yr old.
cheers
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