Ep. 123 Not Seeing Progress in Speech Therapy? Start Here.
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What is the main problem therapists face when children aren’t making progress?
Hello, hello, and welcome to the NeuroAffirm
show. I am flying solo today. Because Chris went back to work. His school started. They end early, but they also start really early. And
I know better. I didn't even ask him if he wanted to be part of the show this week because I knew better than that. He is just in that beginning of the school year trying to figure out how everything's gonna work, getting all the students arranged on his schedule. I mean, he started hot. He started with some IEPs, some parent meetings, just so much. So we will wish him well as he
is settling back into school and anyone else who's a school therapist as well. Today we are talking about something that has come up a lot and that is what sparked the idea for this show, which is what do you do when you are not seeing progress in therapy? This has come up a lot lately on social media, in comments, therapists wanting to know. What is the next step? Or families wanting to know what is the next step if I'm not seeing progress with my child. So therapists are asking, what do I do? How do I know what the missing link is and what I need to do in order to start seeing more progress? So today I wanted to talk about What are the main factors to consider when you're not seeing progress in therapy?
And obviously there's gonna be more than this list I'm going to be going through with you today. There are so many factors that can contribute to a child not making progress in therapy. But today I am going to give you The Three. that I say would say is the most common. These are the most common reasons why kids progress is being affected, why we might see them plateau. And the first one that I'm gonna share with you, I personally think is the most obvious reason for a lack of progress. The second reason I'm gonna share with you is one that This reason I think impacts progress. so much, like more than anything we could possibly other and more than any other factor this one is going to contribute to lack of progress for the second one.
And the third one I'm gonna share with you is what I have started to do differently to really change my approach when we have lack of progress that we are seeing. Like when a child's really start to plateau, this is the thing that I personally think that I look at a little bit differently and then decide on where I'm gonna go from there. And then we're gonna talk about ways that you can get started as well. with starting to see more progress. Okay, that was a mouthful. So let's talk about the first one. And I do think that this is the most obvious reason that we might see lack of progress. And that is that carryover isn't happening. And for those of you who are therapists, you know that carryover basically means that what you are teaching or what the child is doing in therapy is not something that they were doing outside of the therapeutic session.
So there might be they might be doing so much, so many therapy activities when they're actually in the therapy session, but then those different approaches, tools, strategies aren't being carried over at home, at school, with other therapists that they're seeing, anything of that nature. So basically when they're coming into therapy, they're getting all this really amazing therapy. And then they are going outside and we're not seeing any of those same strategies. being used with the child or we're not seeing that same approach being used outside of the therapeutic s setting.
How does lack of carry‑over from therapy to home affect progress?
So this could be for so many different reasons, and it's not really fair to just put the responsibility on one person. This lack of carryover could be because the family isn't carrying it over, but it could be because of the way that the therapist has not set up systems for the family to carry it over. And It could be sometimes families almost putting the onus on the therapist, like, no, but I bring them to you. And therefore, when we're not seeing progress, this is something that you are doing as a therapist as opposed to something that we are not doing at home. And I tell my therapist this all the time.
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