If you had EI for speech around 19 months,

Traba

Can I ask what they did with your child? We had our first session today and I am kind of disappointed in what was done, or really not done. Maybe I just do not realize what they are supposed to be doing. I realize it was only the first session but she said the first couple of weeks are getting to know you. I am paying $110/hr out of pocket and really do not want to spend $550 for him to get to know someone. Cody is not shy by any means and will sit right down with anyone to play so it was not a comfort issue. 

miss1180

i'm a speech therapist and i did an internship in EI... what kind of stuff was she doing with him? maybe i can help explain :-)

Traba

She really did not do anything. He was pushing the cars across the table laughing. I came in and said to him, ready, set,...and I always pause to see if he will say go. Then she did that a few times. Then he had his play guitar and she said are you dancing? Then he went back to the cars and she watched him play. That pretty much sums it up. 

Kristen81603

Um, now I have a relationship with our therapist, but she brings in her own stuff and rarely uses his toys, she is working on animal sounds, she teaches him signs, they work on concepts- in out, up down etc... I am on my. iPhone and cn get into more when I get home/ but she does a lot and always has.

miss1180

Traba:

She really did not do anything. He was pushing the cars across the table laughing. I came in and said to him, ready, set,...and I always pause to see if he will say go. Then she did that a few times. Then he had his play guitar and she said are you dancing? Then he went back to the cars and she watched him play. That pretty much sums it up. 

haha ok... yeah... can't really explain that!! I could definitely understand her not doing too much "work" the first time, and just seeing where he is at. but it doens't even sound like she was really interacting with him!!

  i would see what goes on next time. she really should be talking to him and interacting with him the whole time. some things i remember doing with the kids- we did some "cooking"- one time we made pudding, and then cut up bananas and strawberries to put in there. we worked on things like getting them to say "cup" (while we measured the milk) "pour milk", "stir", "cut bananas"... that kind of stuff.  we put water and some liquid soap in a water bottle, and added food coloring and then the kids could shake it and watch the colors and the bubbles. we worked on things like " shake bottle", "water in",blue bubbles"... that kind of stuff.

 i would see what she does with him next week, and see if its any better. she may have just been using this session to observe him, which is important, too-- but definitely sounds like she should have been interacting more with him.

UsedToBeGoldie

oh, my! I thought $65 was high for us, lol.

have you called your insurance to see if they'll cover it?  Mine pays for 90 visits/year- so we went private and not through EI.

Traba

UsedToBeGoldie:

oh, my! I thought $65 was high for us, lol.

have you called your insurance to see if they'll cover it?  Mine pays for 90 visits/year- so we went private and not through EI.

I liked the idea of them coming here so I was willing to pay. If I go private it is $45 copay and I may go that route. 

UsedToBeGoldie

Traba:

UsedToBeGoldie:

oh, my! I thought $65 was high for us, lol.

have you called your insurance to see if they'll cover it?  Mine pays for 90 visits/year- so we went private and not through EI.

I liked the idea of them coming here so I was willing to pay. If I go private it is $45 copay and I may go that route. 

 for us it actually worked better to go out of the house --- yeah, it's a pain to get all 3 into the car, etc.... but Grayson did not do well at home- he always wanted to be with me, no matter what we tried.  Where we go he is brought into a separate room and he does great that way- and the other 2 can play in the waiting room.

Jezebel1228

I agree with PP in that I would def wait to see what goes on at the next session. From what I recall, there wasnt a whole lot going on at the first session of any of Calebs therapies. Granted they did interact with him a bit more than you described but I would give it a chance.. 

blairsgirl

Sofia and Ava each get speech. They have the same therapist for this. The first couple weeks was getting to know you but she has always brought her own toys and was very interactive with them. She let them choose the toys but she non stop was vocalizing and interacting with them.  

 We have to pay the $110/ hr too and it stinks! The crazy thing is when they turn 3, because EI is over our insurance will pay for unlimited therapy each year from ages 3-5. 

mrsbora

Yikes that's pretty expensive for someone to come to play with your son.  Now I'm concerned since we have an EI speech evaluation coming up.  I wonder if it would help your son (and mine) if we sent them to a mother's day out program instead where they would be around other kids their age that talks.