My experience with speech therapy has shown me that having a therapist with experience working with autistic children makes a significant difference. For example, when we previously worked with a speech therapist who had experience as an RBT in an ABA company, my son made remarkable progress. This specialized knowledge and approach clearly have a meaningful impact on his development.

Speech Therapy helped my son tremendously. He received it early starting at 3 years old. He went from non verbal to a few words here and there. Now today full sentences.

My son who just turned 25 yesterday had speech therapy at age 4 and 5. Prior to that he was verbal but just babbled and while I could understand what he was saying or what he wanted most of the time, he of course needed to learn to speak better. We had a therapist come into our home 3x per week for a couple hours each day to work with him and with us too. We were taught how to help him speak better and we were given exercises to use to help him. Within a very short time he learned to speak "properly" and it did take long before his babbling turned into normal, and very "proper" speech. I tell this story often and it always makes me smile, seemingly overnight he went from babbling to coming up to me and saying "father, would you please make me a sandwich?", to say I was flabbergasted would be an understatement! I turned away and made him the sandwich while crying tears of joy! So yes, speech therapy was worth it, 100% and 1000x YES!! Good luck to you and your child, I hope you have similar results to mine but honestly, any improvement is beneficial and can truly be a game changer 👍🏼👍🏼

We feel speech has helped our child so much but it's combination with behavior and pre-school our biggest problem been keeping a speech therapist. We get a new one they work with her for 2 weeks and quit all for personal reasons nothing about our child made them quit but this new one we have had her for months we have gone from a gesture maybe one word to 3 to 4 word sentences since August I feel like therapy of any kind depends on how good the therapist is

I think it's effective with a consistent, qualified therapists. Unfortunately, it's been my experience with therapists in my area that they come and go very quickly and often change jobs.