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I just read over some of the stuff AJ's teacher gave to me in the parent-teacher conference. "Asking Questions" choice questions rather than dead end questions??? How is this supposed to improve his speech when he is basically non-verbal?! Sometimes I just want to throw my arms up and say FORGET IT!!!

This is really rough! I feel like crying right now, but I don't think my hubby will understand. We are supposed to stay away from "one-word answers"? All he does is screeech!!! I really don't understand how this will help him with his speech! Can someone, ANYONE clue me in?

Thank you all for your words of advice. I will be sure to call his teacher Monday as there is no pre-school on Fridays. I really don't believe I should disrupt her weekend..yanno. I only hope I will get answers this time about him getting some speech there in school, too, as that is why they don't want to pay for outside help. I know his teacher is doing her best to help ALL these children. However, she has a bigger classroom this year and can't give the "one on one" that AJ needs. For them to tell me he will ONLY get speech from her is rather ludicrous to me. AJ will be 4yrs old at the end of this month. He started pre-school last year. I do believe we will start out with signing as he appears to catch on to that more so than PECS. Thanks, again, for your input and support!

kate

Here you can go in and observe the school without it being in the IEP. It is encouraged here that you do surprise visits on the school. Now the speech thing, I know here state law is the max they can get on speech is 60 minutes a week. IDEA leaves some provisions up to the states.screeching is his only way to communicate with you right now. you have to teach him different ways to let his needs be known. my son would moan non stop all day because he was unhappy and didn't know how to tell me. think of things in his perspective, not being able to let you know what is wrong. work with the st and hopefully you both together can get inside his head. believe me it is worth the time and effort when he is able to tell you something on his own. I would suggest you ask the teacher.............how does she think this is going to work.............that is what I did with Curtis..........when they put techniques in that i couldn't possibly see how they were going to help at all...........and I would make them explain to me ..........how it works................and why they think that particular thing would be the best for him.................it is worth a shot.........good luck..........Screeech_2001,

#1 thing--NEVER give up and it is okay to cry--we all do it. Actually sometimes after I have a good cry it seems to energize me afterwards. It's like draining out all the
negative feelings so I can concentrate better on helping my sons. How old is your son?

2nd thing--keep talking to your child even if all he does is screeech for the moment.
I remember my oldest son who is almost 15 used to grunt all the time. If you asked him anything he grunted or pointed. Well he still does it from time to time but has learned to substitute some of those grunts for "No, thank you" or "stop". He given goes up to people puts out his hand to shake theirs and says, "Hi". My son may not be as verbal as others, but before all he did was grunt.

Keep talking to your child, never, ever give up. I know sometimes the techniques we are given to help our children may seem a little strange at first, and sometimes we find ones that work and others that don't. We tried sign-language with my son (he was not having anything to do with that). He responded well in the beginning to visual aids, which led him to bringing me pictures he would see in magazines or books. He would point at these things and I would say the word. At first he would grunt, but know he tried to pronounce whatever I say. Okay--everyonce in a while there is a grunt. But his speech has really improved.

Your son may be non-verbal at this time, but that screeech may just turn into a word one day.

Keep the faith--I'll be praying for you.
Robin
Thank you all for your wonderful ideas! I will be taking AJ to an outside speech therapist (we pay for and not get reimbursed) then I will be taking him to school from there. The thing is...when my hubby and I went there when he first started, she chased us outta there cuz we were disrupting routine. This year he is in a bigger classroom so perhaps it won't be as disruptive??? I would love to volunteer some of my time, but should it be in HIS classroom? Don't you think they would think I was so-called spying on them?
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