speech eval today

KelleyBean

The SLP from Child Find came to the house and evaluated DS today and he did a lot better then I thought he would. His engagement and eye contact were fantastic. He identified all of her pictures by name and was able to follow one, two and three step commands but was not able to identify verbs. She was impressed by the amount of language he had but was concerned with the rote way he used it. He does well with prompts but not as well with original and receptive language. She was wonderful with him and he loved playing with all her toys. He even asked her to play tea party. She did tell us that she would be bringing the receptive language and rigid, rote learning to the table as concerns in our evaluation meeting. Next step is the the one I am the most nervous about, the psychologist. Trying to focus on the positives.....

CaptainSerious

In case you don't know, the psychological evaluation is basically just an IQ test. Before this was explained to me, I was under the impression it would be more like a therapy appointment with an evaluation/character report written about it.

 

For school-aged kids, the team looks at the results of the psychological and compares it to the results of the educational evaluation, and if there is a difference, the child qualifies as having a learning difficulty/delay/disorder. I'm not sure how this is handled for younger kids, because I don't honk they do educational evals for them. Can anyone explain this?