Definitely food for thought. Do you think your son would have started speaking without the SLP intervention? I do think there's a place for therapy in a child's life. At the same time, I find that the therapist can attempt to morph all relationships for the child into a therapy relationship (which is often client-centric) and, as you noted, that's not how the world works...
(and I was so sure you were going to go with turtles, I mean therapists all the way down... But the Matryoshka analogy works as well)
Good question. I wonder? But in today's day and age, you can't really experiment like this. And that's a great point, I may include in the next post about how all relationships turn into therapy relationships. You really see that people seem so upset when other people aren't relating to them therapeutically.
As a fully therapized reader, I loved your essay. I want to share it with my grown children for my grandchildren’s sake, but I know they would tell their therapists it’s all their mother’s fault.
Definitely food for thought. Do you think your son would have started speaking without the SLP intervention? I do think there's a place for therapy in a child's life. At the same time, I find that the therapist can attempt to morph all relationships for the child into a therapy relationship (which is often client-centric) and, as you noted, that's not how the world works...
(and I was so sure you were going to go with turtles, I mean therapists all the way down... But the Matryoshka analogy works as well)
@cb,
Good question. I wonder? But in today's day and age, you can't really experiment like this. And that's a great point, I may include in the next post about how all relationships turn into therapy relationships. You really see that people seem so upset when other people aren't relating to them therapeutically.
As a fully therapized reader, I loved your essay. I want to share it with my grown children for my grandchildren’s sake, but I know they would tell their therapists it’s all their mother’s fault.
Lol! Thank you