[ Post a Response | Articulation, Language, and Fluency ]
Posted by Jenni on 11/3/2009, 2:29 pm, in reply to "Venting and asking for help: Carryover for a H.S. cleft palate"
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You are definitely on the right track by trying to get the teacher take some responsibility for this. If the student is 90-95% intelligible with you, then you've done the lion's share of your job. At this point, others in the environment PLUS THE STUDENT HIMSELF need to take some responsibility for getting this boy to carry over. That means that parents have to correct him and make sure he practices at home. Teachers have to step up to the plate and do some cueing or correcting. But most of all, at his age, the student has to take some responsibility here too.
Regarding how to handle the teacher who complains that the student has speech problems, but doesn't want to get involved in helping him, I always remind them that he is already 95% correct with me. It doesn't make sense for me to pull him out of class to practice in a place where he's already successful. He needs reminders to practice in other places, and with 54 on your caseload, you're just not able to follow him around all day to cue him. Good luck with this situation. I've been there, and it can be very difficult to get others to share the load. If it were me, I would decrease direct service to once a week at this point. This student needs to learn to fly on his own. Perhaps you could shadow him for part of the time you used to work with him directly to start giving him some cues for carryover and to model it for teachers.
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