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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dr Beate,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>For your information here is the address and tel.
of the Hellenic Association of Logopedists. You may ask for more
information.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Feidippidou 8, 115 26 Athens</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>tel/fax 01 777 9901</FONT></DIV>
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href="mailto:info@logopedists.gr">info@logopedists.gr</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://www.logopedists.gr">www.logopedists.gr</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face=Arial size=2>I hope this is helpful and
I wish the best to the family.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mary Kastamoula</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Speech and Language Therapist</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Greece</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>