Do you find it hard to be an advocate for you child?

[supa_star323]

I struggle with being assertive at the best of times...

At the moment DS is seeing a speechy who is fairly young and seems to have no concept of his issues at all. Of course, I am not a speechy but we have seen others before. All she does is play with him, and really I was watching her today and it seems like she is lost and has no idea what to do with him.
I spoke to our OT and she said DS needs to be prompted, the speechy has never mentioned or tried this.
We use PECS at ecdu and daycare, the speechy doesnt think I should introduce this at home.

Originally I thought in time she would get to know Jake and it would improve, but it has been over a month now and if anything she seems to be more lost with him now than before.

What should I say? How do I approach it?

[mummyof9kids]

My sons first speechie used to just sing to him for the first 6 months .then slowly introduced other things .then his second on had no idea what to do with him i had to from day one tell her what to do she lasted a year of me telling her how to do her job this was because i didnt want to be rude .then his third one was a temp and right from day one i told her what i wanted for my son and asked her to try it she did and it worked she left after 2 month and the one he has now has been with him since march this year and again from day one i told her what i wanted for my son and that we need to work together so with both myself and the speechie we worked it out .You just need to tell her what you want and tell her she needs to work with you and that you dont think things are working if she doesnt lisen then take it to someone else or can you ask for a senior speechie to come sit with her for one visit because at the end of the day you need to do whats write for your son.and my sons speechie didnt want us useing pecs at home so we ignored her and started useing them and they work very well.

[Fox in Sox]

It's pretty hard to question a health "professional" especially when you are not an assertive person by nature. I am not either, and I usually go about it fairly gently, eg:
- "So could you explain to me what things you are doing with him, and what you're looking for?"
- "So that I can do things to help him in between your visits, could you let me know what things you're doing with him, and why?"
- "Our OT mentioned that he needs to be prompted, and I was wondereing what you thought about that?"

[supa_star323]

Thanks for the suggestions :-)
I am definitely going to try the last one, and also mention our old speechy used to use prompt too.