Originally Posted by
lizzywednesday
So, what he said was that, in his experience, children with ADHD often have speech-language issues, especially in phonemic awareness. They noted this during her evaluation last week, and encouraged us to keep up with the therapy. We have currently exhausted this year's benefit w/r/t private therapy through insurance.
What I have noticed since she began speech therapy is her ability to sound out words (phonics) has improved because she's better able to match the letter with the phonetic sound it corresponds to, so I think it's helping, though we have to set time aside to do the practice homework. It's pretty easy for me to get what the speech teacher intends for the week's practice because a lot of it dovetails with my choral training, but it's often a pain in the backside to get DD to cooperate. (I've actually been using a few songs from Hamilton to complement the speech homework. I know that sounds weird, and mildly inappropriate due to some of the language, but the fact is she can't keep up with her favorite lyrics if she's not positioning her lips, tongue, and teeth correctly, so it seems to work. Unorthodox, but I'll do whatever it takes.)