Speech Delay/ Speech Therapy?

[Momma_Rock]

So we had Ben's review yesterday, and they went over the test results with me. It seems he is in the 4th percentile for language abilities. There are a couple of catergories where he is in the 1st percentile, but mostly the 4th overall.

He will have some home visits and ST now, then preschool and ST in the fall.

[Masonsmommy06]

My DS just have his evaluation meeting today...he is almost 27 months but his speech is at a 6 month level. I say do the ST...what can it hurt?

[mgl]

Thank you for starting this thread. We are just starting this process for dd. She will be 3 in 3 months, and I can't understand about half of what she says. We are waiting for our initial assessment to determine if she is eligible for services or not. It is nice to hear others positive experiences with st. With dd she understands fine, she just can't communicate back very well. I get so tired of playing the guessing game trying to figure out what she wants or is trying to tell me. Dh keeps telling me that she is fine, and doesn't need any help, but he's not at home with her all day. Sorry about rambling. I am glad that your ds is going to get the therapy that he needs.

[slipp]

Our daughter is in speech-therapy (she is 21 months old, non communative. NO WORDS at all!). Our therapist is wonderful. She basically comes and plays, does sign language and helps us with our daughters feeding issues. Its really painless and its basically a play session.

[JDT]

I'm really glad that I noticed this thread. My DS who is 3.5 yo has a profound speech delay. The thing that was the most frustrating to me is that I kept hearing "he doesn't look like a speech delayed child." At our 1st meeting for the speech eval the therapists' (3 of them) said that they were not sure that he would qualify for the program. They implied that I was being a hysterical mother who was worried over nothing.

DS is quiet and communicated very effectively without words. He and his father sat there coloring during the entire meeting. They never shared a word between them, but completed an entire coloring puzzle.

One therapist even said to me "we are very busy and have children who REALLY need these services." It is only Jesus who kept me from slapping her! I INSISTED that they call his private speech therapist. When they finally did they agreed to push up his testing date.

Once he was tested they got him in the program right away. They even told me that they were suprised at how delayed he was because he didn't seen to be agitated or express great frustration with his inability to communicate.

Ironically he tested FAR below level because he didn't like the tester. Now that that he's setteled and in school they go on and on about what GREAT progress he's made. In truth he's made good progress, but not as much as they think. A lot the things he's doing for them now he could always do. He just would not do it for the tester because he didn't like her.

Progress is progress and I'll take what I can get!

[EMTMommy]

Hi! Our 2 1/2 year old daughter was just diagnosed last week with Aphasia. We had our first ST session Friday. I just wanted to wish you good luck!

[SativaStarr]

DS was evaluated at 14 months for oral motor/speech delays. He did qualify for EI and has been receiving weekly in-home speech therapy ever since. Im SOOO glad I went with my gut and got im evaluated as early as I did because I truely belive the progress he has made is due largely in part to his therapy. He is 29 months now and is finally beginning to talk.. while its still hard to understand alot of his words, at least he is FINALLY using words! And he has just started combining words and saying 2-3 ord phrases! Can you tell Im excited

[partyof6]

I just found this post I know it's older...
My ds now 4 is VERY delayed he was born with a musle def not sure why and hes ok with that now not as stroung as other kids his age though..
anyway he also has the speech delay and started speech early because they knew that was comming.. so he was around 2 when speech started...
he is VERY smart and knows alot for a 4 year old. But the speech still not going well about 2 months ago I was fed up with not getting help for him 1 time per week for 30min not going to cut it with me anymore..
I put up a fight and demanded es DEMANDED he get more help SOOOOO..
We work with the school system thats why it was a fight but when school starts agin he will go 3 das per week for 45min!

right now for the summer I am taking him 2x per week to a st thats 30min away rrr but this is what I have to do..

and YES preschool is VERY,VERY,VERY important speech delays effect kids in school interacting with other kids big time..
My ds will be going to a small chruch pre-k, he went at age 2 and 3 also.
I understand him 98% of the time but dh and others can't at all

[Ruiz'sPieces]

my SDD i starting preschool in the fall she will be 4... she has problems with her speech too sometime you can understand her and sometimes you are like WHAT?/? I am glad that she is going to be getting some help... our school system is a little better she will be going 3 days a week for 2 1/2 hrs.

[JDT]

My son is going to extended year school. Meaning he goes to public school year round until he is on level. He's in a special pre-school class. The kids there are mixed ages, but are grouped by ability. He seems to get along well with others but still prefers parallel play.

It' so cool to see his class. There are kids with all kinds of delays, but they play and get along really well. There is a little boy with Downs that LOVES me son. THey're so cute playing together!

Is anyone else doing extended year school?