Moot Thoughts & Musings

Ugh.. I don't know if you want to hear this, but if this speech therapist made you cry afterwards, I don't think you should go back to her, especially when she showed minimal interest in you and Ellis. Is there another speech therapist you can try?

Sounds like this speech therapist doesn't jive well! We're in the process of getting speech therapy (one for my 3 month old-moderate hearing loss, and the other for my 2 year old who hears just fine but can't say a thing)! It is so wonderful when you find great help, and so terrible when you have someone that doesn't seem to really care.

Well, making me cry isn't really that hard these days with pregnancy hormones. I'm crying at everything. :-)
People have gone to a lot of effort to secure this therapist for us, as one of the only ones in the county that fit our criteria. It's not so bad that I won't give her a fair chance. But I'm not going to let it drag out. I give her 3 more times, and if it's not working, I do have another thing that could possibly work out, but I feel like that that thing would be our last straw.

Thank goodness for IKEA!

We've gone through speech therapists from down under. Like you, I gave them a chance. There was one that I should have fired from the beginning though. My son reacted terribly when she came in our house and she tried to tell me that he had a behavior problem because he couldn't sit and "work." Hello, he was two and half years old!

So follow your gut on this. And recognize that there's a lot of speech therapy you can do as a mom.

We took Nick to someone for testing once and I always resented the fact that he didn't ask Dad and I one question. There was NO dialogue and we weren't better off for taking the time to see him, He told us he sees a lot of 11 year olds. That was the upshot. NO ONE should try to help a child without working with a parent, at least if the parent is there and willing!! That is just plain backward!

I'll be praying for the therapist situation. With few alternatives a big glitch can be overwhelming - esp w/hormones to deal with. ;)

Uggh, what an awful experience. It's so annoying when people assume that you don't know what you're doing, and don't give you the chance to show what you know. I mean, you (and Chris!) are the experts on Ellis's development.

I hope that the next visit goes better. Maybe you can express your concern at the outset of the next visit?

Ditch her. Listen to your feelings...the professional that leaves her clients despairing, depressed, and crying is not one you want Ellis to work with, no matter how many diplomas there are on the wall.

The effective professional is one that energizes and leaves her clients feeling they can take on the world by the ears and give it a good shaking besides. Fortunately, the control is in your hands.

I can see why you would want to give her another chance (maybe...) but from what you have said it sounds as though there were a lot of red flags being waved, in your face. I'd probably dump her.

I think a large part of Ci rehabilitation is involving mom and dad and sibblings and making it a lifestyle and not just a once a week event. I also feel that they should treat each client as the individual that they ARE and not just use a one size fits all prescriptive approach.

Ikea huh? That would bring me out of just about any mood as well, I'm totally jealous. Actually, we're visiting friends in Pittsburgh next weekend and I've made my husband pinky swear that we can stop at Ikea on the way home!

Initial meeting is crucial to developing a good working relationship. You guys have gone a lot and you do not need that.

See our Deaf 10 mo old Noam

I completely understand about being protective of your child from anything, look at your lovely boy and our lovely ones, it's self explained! We are even protective of who works with Noam. So far we are happy with three different speech auditory teachers, two of them are good interns at my dept.

Get rid of this speech pathologist, she is a pathetic one.

Anne Marie

I'm sorry about your bad experience with the 2nd therapist. If I were you, I don't think I'd want to see her again. It s important for family to be involved in the therapy session. My CI kid is fortunate to have such great therapists and teachers for the deaf (all of them are fluent in ASL except for one who knows some sign language) and she usually gets excited to see each of them. If she wasn't too happy with any of them, I'd discontinue their service.

It s just a small bump on your road and hang in there!

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