5-Minute Speech Therapy Sessions: How Long Should Therapy Sessions Be?
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What is the 5‑minute speech therapy model and how does it work?
Hey everybody, this is Carrie Clark from Speechandlanguage Kids.com. You are listening to episode number 19 of the Speech and Language Kids Podcast. This is the podcast with activities and resources for families of children with speech and language delays, as well as the professionals who serve them. Today I'm going to be discussing how long your speech sessions should last at home or in speech therapy, as well as how often you should have those sessions. I'm really excited about this topic because this is something that I get questions from for questions about from the parents that I work with and speech that speech therapists as well. And I know it's something that I struggled with when I was working in the school.
So I hope that this will be incredibly helpful helpful to you. But I do want to have a quick news and update section before we get into our feature segment. So back To school is right around the corner. I know that in Columbia, which is where I am, the public schools are starting next week already. So if you are getting ready to go back to school, or your child is getting ready, you now is a great time to be looking at new speech therapy materials and stuff that you can be using to help your child or your clients. So I want to direct you over to my products page and I have a whole bunch of pro printable products on there for therapy or home practice on all different types of speech sound problems. language problems, all that kind of stuff.
So everything over there except for the ebooks and I think the articulation cards, everything over there is completely free right now. All you have to do is just put an email address in and that will um send that product to your email and it will also sign you up for my email list. You can always unsubscribe if you don't like the content I'm sending you, but I have some really um good tips and information packed into to those emails that I send out periodically. So um I that's a great resource for you as well. So if you would like to get a hold of any of those free resources, free materials, you can get that at www.speechandlanguage kids dot com slash products. That's products with an S, plural S on the end.
Speechandlanguekids.com slash products. Okay, so moving into our feature segment, let's talk about how long your speech therapy sessions should last and how often you should be have them. Having them. I want to start by saying that all children are different. Every kid is going to have different needs about how often they should do speech therapy, how long the session should be. And if you are a parent, it's best to talk to a speech therapist about what they would recommend. Maybe your child is one who really does better if he sits down for a long time and works. Maybe your child doesn't have the attention span to do that. They'll be able to tell you exactly what. What you need. And if you're a speech therapist, you should be looking at each individual child and deciding what their needs are.
However, there are some general recommendations that I can make for you that will kind of help you guide that decision and give you ideas of ways to do speech therapy that are different than kind of the traditional methods that you may be used to.
Why does distributed (short) practice beat massed (long) practice for speech learning?
So let's look at just basic learning. So what do we know about how children learn, how people learn? We know that more practice is better, so the more repetitions that they get is going to help them improve. We know that It takes multiple repetitions of the same skill to retrain the brain and the muscles if a child has been doing something the wrong way. So if they've been saying T for K their whole lives, it's going to take a whole lot of repetitions of saying K or the K sound before that child starts to do that automatically. So it takes a lot of repetitions. We also know that it doesn't help to practice at the wrong. wrong way. So if the child is doing something that's too hard for them and they're practicing over and over again saying it the incorrect way, that's just reinforcing the wrong way.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the 5‑minute speech therapy model and how does it work?
0:00–3:01
2
Why does distributed (short) practice beat massed (long) practice for speech learning?
3:01–6:26
3
How do research findings support individual 5‑minute sessions over group therapy?
6:26–9:13
4
What are the recommended session frequency and duration for different severity levels?
9:13–11:53
5
How can school‑based SLPs fit multiple 5‑minute sessions into a limited schedule?
11:53–14:27
6
What strategies keep children engaged and motivated during ultra‑short sessions?
14:27–17:14
7
How can parents create effective home practice using the 5‑minute model?
17:14–19:56
8
Where can listeners find additional resources, courses, and research links?
19:56–23:12