I had a really bad experience with speech therapy early on in life. I had it from age 6 to about 16 and hated pretty much all of it. I just couldn't shake the impression I was constantly being patronised. Also when I was about 7-8 the first speech therapist I had in school, she sent me home with an A-Z sheet of paper in sign language because she said I should learn it. My mum was rightly absolutely furious, and all that came after wasn't very helpful for me at all. But that's just my experience.