So I requested a copy of B's Speech Evaluation and what did I find out? He was diagnosed with a Developmental Speech Disorder and an Expressive Language Disorder.
So what does all that mean?
Well for the first part - the Developmental Speech Disorder - this includes a severe articulation & phonological delay. According to the results of the assessment he is off the charts on the low end. His score was equivalent to skills of a child between less than 2.6 years old to less than 2.9 years old.
As for the second part - the Expressive Language Disorder - this includes a mild language delay. On this part of the assessment, the scoring is broken between basically 'receptive' and 'expressive' language use. For receptive language abilities, he was just a few months delayed from his actual age. For the expressive language abilities, he was a year and a few months delayed from his actual age.
It is SO wild to be able to know what you are working with. It helps me to understand how to approach our method of homeschooling for the upcoming school year - Kindergarten!
I also should have added that the SLP (Speech Language Pathologist) said, "he has excellent potential to reach his goals." So that is very encouraging. I do believe it will take some time though to reach all of the goals that they have for us. At least we have the plan in place and now can move forward on that.
------------------------------------------------------
We are also still awaiting the written report from our Evaluation for Jase last week at the CDSA. Once we have that we can start his speech therapy. We are also waiting to get him an Occupational Therapy evaluation to see where to go from there...
So I am thankful that the boys checked out healthy yesterday at everyone's well visit. Also, the great news is that we are now established with our new doctor and can work on getting the appropriate referrals that we need.
No comments:
Post a Comment