As a result, third year families have reduced their hours of other therapy to zero. This is primarily due to the lack of support available in their community. The parents say that 97 percent of the children spend more enjoyable time with others. When asked about their dissatisfactions, families gave the following reasons. Families wish that their provider had been more assertive in requiring them to do more hours and obtain more staff training.
Families wish that they had gotten more funding and resources from outside sources.
Families were unable to either pay for or find an experienced lead therapist for staff training. My child is labeling and requesting in structured drills, even spontaneously, but doesn't show much spontaneous speech outside of the drills. Mum in Crowley Dear Mum. But in effect we are sending the child to deliver a message. The message drill can be used at any level of speech complexity.