Take up the Challenge

I have just spent a busy week providing a local preschool with several speech pathology initial assessments. A mix of speech and language difficulties were diagnosed of varying severity and wtih varying amounts of parental support and capacity available. The mission...if you choose to accept it...is to help me work out a better way of servicing not only these children but the childcare centre that they all attend. Historically us 'speech pathologists' provide an appointment followed by a lovely (jargon heavy) report for parents and educators and an equally glossy and impressive looking 'programme'. Then, we are usually on our way to see our next client. This doesn't work! We wipe people off our lenghty waiting lists but do we really achieve any outcomes? Definitely not. What will work best to support families, therapists and educators to achieve the best outcomes for chidlren with communication disorders? Start thinking...my future posts will try to address this problem and propose varying solutions.