Name: Thrive! NCHE Homeschool Conference
Start: 2025-05-22T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-05-24T23:59:59-05:00
Location: Winston-Salem, NC

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April 26, 2011 at 4:43 pm
nerakr
Participant
Ladies,
For reasons I won’t go into, we will no longer be using our area rehab center for dd’s speech therapy. Our only options now are (1) our public school system, which I really don’t want to use; (2) do it myself at home. That said, has anyone here used Straight Talk by NATHHAN? How well does it work for language delays? She is almost 4 and is just now beginning to use 2-word phrases and does not ask or answer questions.
Also, is there anything else I can look into before I buy?
TIA,
Karen
April 26, 2011 at 5:40 pm
Bookworm
Participant
Karen, I’ve used the Straight Talk volume for dysfluencies with good success. I can’t speak to the success of the volume on delays. I’d be a bit more loath to try that, myself, but it’d be better than nothing I’m sure.
Yes, I just recently saw an ad for another product. I think it was in a magazine. At the moment, I can’t recall it–I’ll see if I can find the ad to pass on to you.
April 26, 2011 at 5:50 pm
Bookworm
Participant
Hmm, the ad I saw was for here, and this seems to be more focused on mispronunciations & dysfluencies.
http://www.goodsoundpublishing.com/Speak_With_Me_Books.html
I also found this one:
http://www.superstarspeech.com/speech-therapy-materials.html

I also found these:
http://www.speech-language-development.com/
http://www.speechdelay.com/
http://www.speechteach.com/
HTH! I know delays are more complex than dysfluencies and I know a LOT less about them. Have you read NurtureShock? There’s a section with some research in there . . .
April 26, 2011 at 6:27 pm
nerakr
Participant
I knew about Super Star Speech already. It’s been in HSE or TOS for the last few months. It’s more for articulation disorders.
I liked the look of Small Talk, a link I found through the speechteach.com site. The sample pages showed things I would be doing myself, though, such as reading “My H Book” by Jane Belk Moncure. Anybody use this one as well?
April 27, 2011 at 4:21 am
Michelle G.
Member
I don’t have anything to offer in terms of speech products but I just wanted to encourage you. My son also wasn’t speaking in sentences at 4 years old, just one to maybe four words at a time and hard to understand at that. He was in PS through kindergarten; we pulled him out at the end of that school year. Flash forward 4 years or so. He is talking, he’s super bright and has many interests. He also loves God and His Word. It’s been a struggle at times and even now his speech delays still show up in his ability to spell and really hear and distinguish sounds, delays in math because of is inability to hear instruction clearly (I suspect he has auditory processing issues), among a few other things.
We had been warned that without speech therapy from a certified therapist his situation was hopeless. NOT SO! The Lord has been so good – we could have been frightened into keeping him in PS, or taking him there each week to see the school therapist (one 20 minute session with several other kids was all he was getting when he was there anyway!) but we trusted God since He had called us to homeschool and He knew that I wasn’t a speech therapist, and that my son was very speech delayed.
At first, in his first grade year and first year homeschooling, we spent half the year just going over the 100 chart for math so that he could say the names of the numbers correctly. Hard to teach math and communicate about math when so many of the numbers sound the same when your student says them. We also had a marker board on the wall and I would write all of the words that he was mispronouncing and we would go over them each day and erase the ones that he had mastered. It was tedious and took a major amount of faith, but eventually he did come along. Now, if you didn’t know of his past issues with speech you couldn’t tell.
All that to say, hang in there! Even without speech therapy we fared very well, praise God, and at least in our area the speech therapy the PS provides leaves a lot to be desired.
Blessings,
Michelle
August 15, 2011 at 8:03 pm
morgrace
Participant
Nerakr – did you end up using Straight Talk volume 2? Or something else? I am helping a friend look for speech therapy materials (for speech delays) and this was the closest match I’ve found so far. Just wondering if you could tell me anything about it? Thanks!!
August 15, 2011 at 8:25 pm
joannarammell
Participant
we used straight talk vol 1, a book Teach Me To Say It Right, and Speech Therapy with my first speech delayed child…also a school book called Phonemic Awareness …this educated me greatly…now…with my second speech delayed child we are making progress w/o therapy…and i will probably have an opportunity to apply it all again with the third. Oh, and we loved the CDs Speechercise.
one of the blessings of some of these materials was finding out the “norm” for mastering a sound might be much later than you suspect.
hth jo
August 15, 2011 at 8:33 pm
nerakr
Participant
Morgrace,
I never tried any of the programs. Sorry I can’t be much help.
Karen
August 15, 2011 at 8:49 pm
Monica
Participant
I haven’t used any of the programs. We chose to bring our son to the PS 1x/week for an hour for speech therapy. The ST is EXCELLENT. She has been great with him, and has given me some great activities to do at home.
The PS wanted, of course, to enroll him in their preschool and send a bus to pick him up. We told them that we were there specifically for the services that he needed and for nothing else. It’s worked out great.
So, whichever path you choose, I did want to let you know that the PS can be an option for him to work with a professional without enrolling in the school.
August 15, 2011 at 9:52 pm
morgrace
Participant
OK, thanks for the responses! Glad to hear that you are able to receive the speech therapy w/o enrollment Jawgee and that the speech therapist has been so helpful. Unfourtnately that has not been the case for my friend and her child. No school = no professional therapy for them. I look thru some of the other links above and pass on what I find. Thanks again.
August 15, 2011 at 10:54 pm
Monica
Participant
Wow, that’s really unfortunate. The school dept here in NH has been working with us closely and hasn’t had a thing to say about us homeschooling.
August 16, 2011 at 12:22 am
Bookworm
Participant
You do also want to be careful. In some states, going to the school district, especially if you end up receiving an IEP for the child, thereby marking the child as “special needs” can influence homeschooling–in some places if the child is “special needs” then they need approval for homeschooling that would not otherwise be necessary. Do stay on your toes if you go that route!
August 16, 2011 at 12:59 am
TracyM
Member
We’ve used the school for speech very briefly (long story behind that lol) and it was o.k. except for the fact that it just wasn’t that great. He was in a little group of 3 boys and to me what they worked on was really random. One day he came home with a list of words to practice from a story they’d read–no connection to each of words whatsoever except they were it the book. Previously to this, we’d had a speech therapist come to our house and work with him one-on-one and his homwork was all on one type of word, like the same ending or same beginning, etc. they were all on a particular sound he was working on that week with the therapist or something. Not random out of a book or whatever other source they came from. He just didn’t make as much progress that way, but then again, when are public schools as efficient as one-on-one tutoring?
August 16, 2011 at 1:45 am
Sue
Participant
Bookworm, what were the dysfluencies you were working on? My son no longer has any of the speech delays or articulation problems that he used to have, but he has difficulty putting the correct words together or sometimes even just can’t get the right word out of his mouth. (I have had this problem to a slight degree forever…I’ve been known to point to the running faucet in a moment of frustration and tell the child, “Put that down, put that down” instead of “Shut it off” or “Turn that off.”) He’ll stop in the middle of saying something and struggle to find the right words, and he’ll just sputter for a few moments and gesture with his hands.
Often, he comes up with a word that is close to what he means, so we do understand him, but it’s the kind of thing that people think is cute from a 3- or 4-year old, but it’s just incorrect coming from a 12-year old. And as a child on the autism spectrum, he still at times struggles with modulating his voice to achieve the appropriate volume and inflection.
Are any of these the things that Straight Talk 2 addresses?
Thanks,
Sue