I feel like speech therapy is worthless unless you are really young

I feel like speech therapy is worthless unless you are really young Everybody always talks a big talk about speech therapy, but I feel like it only helps in a major way when you are young (like anything below 8 or so). It’s one of the things that makes me the angriest is when people talk about speech therapy like it’s the end all, be all solution. I get that it can help, but I have a huge gripe about it. I think that the strategies are beyond retarded (excuse my language) because why should we have to think so intently and strategize each and every word we speak. The whole reason people go to speech therapy is to talk like everybody else, and that is not how everybody else talks.