[ Post a Response | Articulation, Language, and Fluency ]
Posted by dawnslp
on 2/7/2009, 10:26 am, in reply to "Re: Just need to vent"
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We should still be able to provide these services as it's originally what we were put into the schools for. I did not go to school to be a writing teacher, but elementary teachers did have classes to teach writing. Let them teach writing and I will teach speech.
BTW, LEA's are supposed to allot a certain amount of money to serve children in private schools, so your data there is incorrect. However, it is up to each LEA how the funds are used and up to the parents to provide transportation AND make the request. I know this as I have served both home-schooled and private school children in my state. The paragraph below was copied from The Stuttering Foundation website:
Children attending private school
If your child attends a private school but needs speech therapy, the local public school district is still required by IDEA to identify, evaluate, and provide services that are provided to children attending public schools. The main differences for children attending private schools vs. those attending public schools are in how services are delivered and the replacement of the IEP with a “Service Plan.” For example, instead of a speech-language pathologist coming to your child’s school to provide stuttering therapy, your child may have to walk to the closest elementary school for therapy. The Service Plan is similar to the IEP in many ways in that it will establish annual goals for your child and specify the kinds of services your child will receive. Personnel from your child’s school are invited to help determine your child’s eligibility for services and to help develop your child’s Service Plan.
Are you kidding that you expect parents to be able to correct articulation errors? If that is the case, why do we even have jobs or have to go to school six years to get a degree? Following the same logic, parents should fix their kids language delays too, but we know that doesn't happen either.
Do you have any idea how many people have requested my /r/ program? It is up around the 3,000 range. If SLP's with all of our training have so much trouble fixing /r/, how are parents supposed to do it????? On top of this, many other sounds are difficult to correct as well. I do not have the time, nor the desire to train parents how to fix articulation as it's what I was trained to do and I will continue to do it. Also, it's great that you want to provide services without pay, but I cannot afford to do so and I require that I get paid for my time.
Following your logic, couldn't parents do most aspect of our jobs if you train them?
You know what? Have decided that I should try to be a doctor. Do you think I could find a doctor that will train me to do their job???? I don't think, so I will let my doctor be the doctor and I will be the SLP. That's basically what you're saying, isn't it? It's not that hard, we can teach the parents to do it. Correcting articulation is a VERY hard job and I don't believe it is one that can taught in a seminar. I have honed my remediation techniques over YEARS of practice and continue to do so everyday.
We are spread too thin and have too many responsibilities. That is the bottom line. I guess we will have to agree to disagree, but I do know you are in the minority with your opinion.
To the OP...please feel free to vent here anytime you want. If parents read these comments, so be it. Everyone complains about their jobs and this is the perfect forum for it. It's a shame someone has to make you feel guilty about it. To be honest, this site is truly for SLP's to help SLP's, not make them feel bad. If parents want to come here for help, that is great, but if they take offense to an SLP that is 'venting', that is their issue.
I know this site is a great resource to me and many others, so let's get back to doing what we do....helping people. This discussion is over for me.
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