Ming from Agents of Speech argues parents are better positioned than external therapists to help delayed children. They spend vastly more time together, and therapy is expensive and hard to find. Many countries require master's degrees for therapists, which shrinks the workforce.
You need to be the therapist that your child needs because you're the best one, because you have the most time with your child. It's not like you're able to hire someone to follow you and your child, like, 24 7. Right. It's going to be very expensive, number one. Number two is that you can't even find a speech therapist or a therapist of any kind at any cost right now. Okay. Let's talk about private speech therapy. Costs are rising. The reason is, first of all, in a lot of countries, speech therapy requires a master's level education. Okay. And that means the number of people graduating is going to be quite low. And on top of that, speech therapy or any type of therapy services, the retention rate of people is low.
