Emotional satisfaction of parents and speech-language therapists with outcome of training intervention in children with speech and language disorders

The compliance of children and their parents is very important for the outcome of speech-language therapy in children. We analyzed 169 questionnaires of parents whose children had received speech-language therapy and 140 questionnaires of speech-language therapists (logopedists) concerning their satisfaction with the outcome of the intervention. Treatment was usually once weekly. We found that the majority of the parents was very satisfied with the outcome of the speech-language therapy, the professional knowledge of the speech-language therapists and the type of therapy. The speech-language therapists were in most cases pleased with the compliance of the parents. Speech-language therapists who have been working for many years tend to spend less time with parents, to consider insufficient progress as a challenge and to treat less frequently.