speech delay and bilingual education

[Mary Kastamoula]

Dr Beate,

I understand what the situation is in a greek island where the specialists and the resources are not always there. It is an issue that there is not a bilingual therapist who could handle the family's bilingual situation and if the therapist is greek then therapy and generalisation unavoidably will be in greek. It would be a good idea for the future that the child is assessed by a bilibgual therapist.I know there are many greek speech and language therapists trained in Germany.

In the present case may be the father could be more involved as greek is his language and help witht the exercises so that the mother can feel that she can use german with the child. Whatever they decide in cooperation with their therapist I think consistency of the speakers is important so that the child can associate a language with a speaker e.g. mother german, father greek.


For your information here is the address and tel. of the Hellenic Association of Logopedists. You may ask for more information.

Feidippidou 8, 115 26 Athens
tel/fax  01 777 9901
info at logopedists.gr
www.logopedists.gr


I hope this is helpful and I wish the best to the family.

Mary Kastamoula
Speech and Language Therapist
Greece
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