3-yr-old speech evals

[versed]

Yes, as an SLP who worked five years with preschoolers, I should know more about this process than I do. However, we had a "child find team" who did all the evals before I got the kids.

Anyways, I know we had discussed people talking to Dr at 3-yr physical about articulation skills. We did. She recommended an eval, which I knew was coming. We translate most of his speech still for others. I was hoping this full year in DC and having mom-therapy at home would and it has, but not enough. And I can't keep treating my own kid.

Well, he turned three on Saturday, and school gets out in our district tomorrow. I talked to the director of special ed today, and we'll eval him in august to see if he qualifies for preschool. That means in order to get transportation to/from daycare, we need to go to a local one (as opposed to the one near my work). So, we don't know if he'll qualify, but we can't wait to switch daycares until he then. So, we've started looking for new daycare. Ugh.

Sorry for all that rambling!

How is everyone else doing who is considering speech or other special ed services through the schools?

[gk12]

Are you thinking he needs to go to the preschool to receive speech services? I'm also an SLP and our district has an SLP who will be serving the preschool age population wherever they are whereas I'll serve the preschool kids that come to my elementary school site. Also could he qualify for services at a hospital or private practice this summer?

[nursedesi]

The preschool we choose has slps come and eval if needed. Our local speech place only does evals till 3 then afterwards will only see them through school so we just missed getting him evaled (they wouldnt do it with in 45 days of his bday). So we have to wait and see also. We also have to translate a lot.

[mrsdonati]

Elena is going to the town preschool in the fall to receive speech therapy, but she'll start going to speech at the school for an hour 1 day a week when early intervention ends. We still translate a lot since she's only talking at a 2 year level and according to the preschools eval, has a "moderate speech and language impairment".

[mommymadness]

Tomorrow I have "baby steps" a program I go to with Abby and Benjamin and the school slp is going to come. I hope she has lots of good info because I feel like Benjamin is behind in his language as well. So hopefully I will have more knowledge tomorrow! Any questions, you know of, I should be asking?

[versed]

gk12 - I know that when I worked in the city, there were preschool-based and traveling SLPs (I saw kids at daycares), but this is a small town with just one small elementary school. I need to ask about services at daycare, but that didn't come up during initial call, just that they provided transportation to/from the town daycares.

I'll talk to DH about private services this summer. I think there must be an Easter Seals in the city. I'd have to check insurance on that one, too.

mommymadness - hmm, questions ... Just ask what you can do at home. SLPs have some great ideas for the language to use to get you kiddo to speak more. Good luck! Let me know how it goes!

[gk12]

I'm not sure if it's all states but here in VT there was a law passed that provides preschool for free to all children. So if a child qualifies for services our school district has to provide the service regardless of where the kiddo is during the day. Might be worth looking into. I'm not sure what the name of the law is.

[mommymadness]

So I talked with the speech lady. She works with school aged kids but our region has a speech pathologist for preschoolers. She recommended giving her a call. In the mean time she suggested making an "s" book and work on that sound. I think it will take 2 months before we are able to get in for an evaluation.

[jfresh]

Oliver is going to the developmental preschool through our school district. I think he will be pulled out once a week for an hour of speech one on one. He has improved CRAZY amounts in the last 1-2 months but still has a long way to go.

versed our school will send a bus to our home or caretaker as long as it's within the bus route/town limits.

[jfresh]

And I just went to our last meeting to get the IEP and his schedule. He qualified for five days. Yikes. This will be an interesting change!

[abseptember]

I finally had my old neighbor chat with Leah. She didn't do a formal eval but did go through sounds she should know at this age and such. She said at this time L wouldn't qualify for services... her clarity issues are pretty typical for her age and we should keep working with her like we normally would. In the week or so, seveal sounds are getting more clear and she is much more receptive to trying to repeat words correctly. So hopefully the clarity will improve soon.