[ Post a Response | Articulation, Language, and Fluency ]
Posted by slp09 on 2/1/2009, 10:22 pm
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I read a previous post from an SLP wanting to know how to help a student with reading comprehension. A legitimate question and my post is NOT intended to be critical of his/her question or any responses to the post.
I am an older SLP and am quite frustrated by the extent of services we are expected to provide:
articulation, language, phonology, dysphagia, apraxia, autism, LD, mental handicap, severe/profound, hearing impaired,emotionally handicapped, fluency, processing, TBI, aphasia, early intervention,etc. Now we are expected to teach math concepts, spelling, reading vocabulary and provide RTI. When I entered the profession, I believed my purpose was to provide services for the child to COMMUNICATE in an effective manner. This did not include reading, spelling, math concepts and social skills. It's my opinion there are specialists/teachers trained to provide services in these areas in addition to the assistance from Title programs and teacher's aides in the classrooms. We are expected to know too much about too many areas.
I suggest we concentrate on intelligible expressive speech and communication skills. Can a child speak/communicate and understand language (based on their ability level).
I am anticipating responses to this post that suggest I am too old, not motivated, narrow-minded, rambling, uninformed, etc. I realize this post will not change anything but it gave me an opportunity to vent my frustrations and for that I am thankful.
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