English-speaking speech therapists in Berlin

My son goes to an english-german kindergarten and the teachers there told me today, that they think he may have a speech problem and will need a visit to a speech therapist. He speaks only english so there's no point going to a german one. Does anybody know a good english speaking therapist? Or maybe someone had a similar problem? It really worries me.
Regards

Since I am in Munich, I cannot help you to find one in Berlin.

However, I am interested to know how you know for sure if this is a speech problem or just that he is not willing to talk...
Do you yourself see an issue ? Or did the teacher just tell you ? Since he speaks english(as you say)...

What bothers me is that these days it seems that there are too much attention to smaller issues that eventually go away...

Just a thought.

My youngest got tested yesterday in Kg and I was told he is not quite rolling his 'R's properly! It really is not that bad and I told them I wanted to wait a year. If you think it is ok don't let them push you into Speech therapy. Seems every other kid here is in therapy for something!

Oh and my oldest got told he need hearing aids 3 weeks after arriving in this country!! He had been at school in the Uk with no problems!

He doesn't have hearing aids now and his class teacher thinks it is only a slight problem. Paranoid German Docs!!

I didn't think there was a problem at all! That's why I was so shocked and started to worry. He started talking very late for his age but I though it's because there's two languages at home ( english and polish). Now he talks a lot though it's not all grammatically correct I try to teach him speaking the right way. He's just turned three and I don't expect him to be fluent and perfect. I thought it'll all come to him and he just needs more time, but after talking to the teachers I really started to worry. Thanks guys for the replies.
Oh and the teachers at the kindergarten are american..

Does not look like there is anything really to worry.
But ofcourse you should do what you think is needed.

My concern is that we fear too much and try to do all these therapy stuff, which in turn makes the kids feel inferioir or like they have a lot of problems...
My theory is that unless it is absolutely proven, there is no need to tak action and panic...

BTW: My wife is in her 40s and still cannot do a proper "R" sound to get the german language right..
No speech therapy required I guess...

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I'd have to say, Germans have really specific small little diseases (I'd rather call it problems). From where I come from, if you say that a person has speech problems, you are indirectly saying that he's "retarded".
Also, it's clear that a 3 year old boy would have speech problems, especially if German is not his first language. It's kinda like his first year learning German - it's normal that he can't pronounce the R or umlauts correctly. Give him a couple of years and I'm sure that he can speak pretty perfect German.

P/S: Think about it this way, if one is considered to have speech disability when they can't pronounce R the German way - then I guess most of the Turkish, Vietnamese have speech disabilities. Does this also mean that they are disabled? That they can opt for disabled fare for transportations?!

My daughter attended a speech therapist in English a few years ago. It's certainly true that the 'problem' was picked up by her German teacher, and that there seems to be a tendency to dramatise small issues. In our case I'm glad we did it: my daughter did have a noticeable problem with some sounds, connected with a missing tooth and a spell of deafness, and she couldn't say th, sh or ch at all. The speech therapist sorted that out, did the whole thing in English (she's bilingual American-German) and my daughter loved her. However she was due to go off on maternity leave when we last saw her, and I don't know if she's back yet. Her practice is still open though. She's Judith Grunewald-Oveson, at Trautenaustr. 24 in Wilmersdorf. Good luck!

Can you go there as an adult to clear out your Swenglish accent?? Do people do that kind of thing, or is that just weird?

I meant to post this earlier and forgot. Streamline, if you are still interested I have a neighbor who used to do some speech therapy and she can help you with your accent if you are interested. It would be free because she wants to improve her English and possibly pick up some Swedish...so it's a bit of a language exchange.

Furthermore, anyone interested in accent reduction via language exchange can PM me and I will pass on her details.