Why Do Speech Therapists Group Children Together?
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Why do speech therapists group children together for therapy?
Hey everybody, this is Carrie Clark, and you are listening to episode number sixty-three of the Speech and Language Kids Podcast. This is the podcast with resources and activities for speech therapists as well as for parents of children with speech and language delays and disorder. Today we are talking about group therapy. So specifically, I'm going to be answering the question today: why do speech therapists group children together? I have a lot of a lot of times I have parents confused about the idea of why kids are put together in groups and not seeing the benefits of it. And there really are a lot of benefits of having your child get speech therapy. at the same time as another child in a group together.
So I just kinda want to talk today about why this happens and what the actual benefits of it of group speech therapy are. And then of course we'll talk about the exceptions to that and when individual therapy is actually needed for kiddos. So That is our topic today. Before we get into that, I do want to mention the um all-in-one articulation and articulation program and materials kit that I have for sale. This is an ebook, so it's a digital download. You download it on your computer and then you can print it out. It has all of the materials and information that you need to do articulation therapy, which is fixing speech sounds for kiddos. So this is good for speech therapists, it's good for parents if you're working on things at home outside of your speech therapy sessions.
It's gonna have flashcards for all the different speech sounds. It has step-by-step instructions for what to do first, what to do next. There's a screener to help you figure out what sounds they're having trouble with and which ones you need to start with. So there's all kinds of really good resources in there. If you want to get more information, you can go to speechandlanguage kids.com slash Artic Kit, A-R-T-I-C. K-I-T, that's one word, no spaces or dashes. All right, so there's the resource for today, but let's jump on in with our content and the information about the benefits of group speech therapy. Okay, so I have to start off with the the elephant in the room and and that is the time constraints.
So this this is what I find that most parents are under the impression are is the only reason that kiddos get group speech therapy, and that is there's not enough time. So when I say there's not enough time, I'm talking number one about the fact that there are only certain times that a child can be pulled out of class to get their speech therapy. So and you know I'm primarily talking right now in the school setting because I feel like that's when groups happen the most. When I was in private practice, I didn't really do groups because the kids that I wanted to group couldn't all come at the same time. But when you're working in a school, all the kids are there all day, so you can actually have a little more flexibility to say, okay, I'm gonna pull you with this other kid who needs to work on the same skills.
But let's talk about these time constraints.
What time‑constraint issues make group speech therapy necessary?
So when you are pulling a child out of his class, there are only certain times that you can do that. Now, part of this comes from the classroom teacher saying, Hey, I don't want you to pull kids out of this time of day because I need all my kids here for, you know, whatever it is for group building, for this type of learning. Um, there's also just certain certain times that you just wouldn't want to pull a kid out of. For example, if they're having trouble with reading, you wouldn't want to pull them out of their reading time to work on something different like speech, because they really need that time in the classroom to work on their reading skills. So it really limits the the amount of time during the day that would be acceptable for you to pull them out of their class.
And then you also have to consider that there's only certain times of the day that the therapist is available. So there may be, um, you may have a speech therapist who's only in your school certain days.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why do speech therapists group children together for therapy?
0:00–2:54
2
What time‑constraint issues make group speech therapy necessary?
2:54–6:05
3
How does peer support and normalization benefit kids in group therapy?
6:05–8:32
4
Why does hearing peers’ speech errors increase a child’s awareness of their own skills?
8:32–11:28
5
How does teaching a peer help the teacher learn the skill themselves?
11:28–13:45
6
What is perspective‑taking and why is it important in group speech sessions?
13:45–16:39
7
How does practicing with peers improve generalization of speech skills?
16:39–18:58
8
When should a child move from group to individual speech therapy?
18:58–26:38