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1. If his evaluation didn't tease out his speech problems, he might not have had a MFE. Early on, the only test that hinted at DS's speech issues was TOPL-2. He'd pass anything else.

2. Rather than just talk about your concerns, roll them into a document titled parental concerns. Write it bullet style with a concern and then back it up with an educational setting issue where this impacts his ability to access the curriculum. Could be something like playing with other students,self advocation, etc. Have said document included in the evaluation- you are every bit a member of the team.

3. Bring someone. Do not go alone.

 

In terms of the testing, they did 2 different kind of speech tests. They did the standardized one that EI uses that covers all areas of development, then a specific test for speech that began with a P and had four letters after it--I can't quite recall the name. They are going to give him another test within the next few weeks that's specific to articulation which I know he'll score poorly on. I'm just nervous that his receptive/expressive/cognition scores being so strong will counteract any negative artic scores he gets.

I am going with my DH and our EI service coordinator. I'll be asking both her and our SLP lots of questions of things I should push as well since they're also familiar with DS's needs.

Thank you everyone for the suggestions!

I hope you don't mind-I am a lurker with a son with some special needs as well as a SLP.

Was his given the PLS-5?  We've (Multiple SLP's across a few states and different populations) have found that there are inflated standard scores on the new version of the test.  Enough that a bunch of us have chosen not to use it anymore on any children older than 3 (I see preschool up).  The only way we've found this is because we were doing re-evaluations on children with identified speech and language disorders and they were scoring within normal limits-following it up with further testing using the CELF-P2 and finding significant (and as expected) weaknesses.  It might be something to bring up to the SLP if it was used.  (Back to lurking )