Speech Therapy
As I’m typing this, Emma is downstairs struggling with speech therapy. Our speech therapist is awesome. She’s relatively new to us; she’s been working with Emma for a few months now. But she’s full of energy and has a great rapport with Emma. Today, however, is challenging. The SLP (Speech/Language Pathologist) is really making Emma work hard on her V’s. Her V’s still come out like B’s. And already I’ve witnessed minor temper tantrums just ready to mature into the full-blown meltdowns. I really hope Emma can hang in there.
Again, we use positive reinforcement and rewards to help encourage her. On Speech days, it’s a chocolate milk (with whipped cream, of course) from Starbucks. Something I could easily make for a lot less money, but surely a big treat for Emma. We’ll see if she earns it today.
Is there a therapy or a subject in school that your child struggles with? How does he or she persevere through?
