Why Speech Therapy is Stressful for Children

Putting a child inside of a therapy room and a clinic room with a therapist with a lot of toys, making them talk as much as possible, squeezing all the words out within that 30 to 40 minute mark is stressful. A lot of times when children are going home from my therapy sessions, they are falling asleep on the train or on the taxi and parents will think it's their fault that when they go home nothing really happens, nothing really changes. And they put it on themselves and think that I should put my son to therapy more often so that they can get the training and therapy they need. You're not wrong if you're thinking that, but the problem is you cannot sustain such a stressful thing 24, seven. Right. You need to accept that once you're at home, the stress level needs to be a lot lower because they're at home and they cannot. No one can live in an environment where the mom or dad keeps on asking questions, keep on telling them to talk, pushing them to talk, and then trying to get them practice talking. That just doesn't work. It's humanly impossible. And that's why children get mad.