Straight Talk

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 . . .

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

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

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.

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.

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?