Speech Therapy In The Early 1970s

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Many years ago early language intervention involved the speech language pathologist “treating” the child in a therapy room with little or no parent involvement. Change started to happen in the early 1970’s with research showing that parent’s involvement was critical and that the earlier the parents became involved the better the outcome for the child. Research was also showing that children learned best in their natural environment, not a therapy room that was new, scary and different for the child, and where they are motivated to talk to the people that are important to them in their lives. A significant change came to the way speech therapy was given to young children in 1975 when Ayala Hanen Manoson, a speech-language pathologist developed