How much speech therapy? Please advise

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My HFA son is 4 1/2 he has been having therapy for past year and half. His speech therapy is for around 10 minutes a day at pre-school where they play games ie 'put hat on teddy ' and ' big gloves on small doll'. He would match the clothes with right person. I have similar games from therapist which I now and again play with him.

He started off with PECS this helped him to build a big vocabulary and started him off saying 'I want'. He doesn't use PECS at home but has a picture timetable at pre-school.

He is speaking in some sentences, but speech is still unclear.

Can someone tell me is the therapy he is receiving enough? Do playing picture games really improve speech? Is this and PECS all speech therapy is?

Thanks for your help.

I would repost this on the Parents' board, where other parents are likely to see it and respond.

I did speech therapy for 20 minutes a day from 1st - 5th grade and it paid off. People can understand what I am saying and I do not sound less intelliegent like I did when I was a kid. The only bad thing is that it got rid of my southern accent replacing with my speech teacher's strong Buffalo Ny accent. I now say Bat as Baaat or Cat as Caaat. It causes me to drag my vowels..