The everyday life of a stay at home mom just trying to stay sane.

Thursday, July 06, 2006

Speech Eval

We had the follow up meeting with Miles Speech and Language Pathologist this morning.
It appears that Miles is 32% delayed in expressive speech. Expressive speech is his only delay. In fact, he's quite advanced when it comes to other areas of development. As high as 27 month olds in some aspects.
Because of the 32% delay, we are eligible for state assistance.
What this would mean is that a SLP would come out to our home as much as once a week and as little as once a month to help us help Miles.
But, we learned something pretty interesting.
Children who have only expressive speech delays almost always are on par with peers by the time they go to Kindergarten.
Seeing Miles has only an expressive delay, we're pleased to hear this.

We've decided to forgo assistance, with the knowledge that we can call upon it when ever we feel the need.

If there are any late talkers out there, I highly recommend having them evaluated if it's possible. Instead of making me more nervous, it make me feel much better. Each state offers free evaluations!
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Today is the big news day!
AHHHHHH!
Let's hope I don't make a fool of myself.
What on earth are they going to talk about for 2 1/2 minutes with us.
I'm not sure we're that exciting....wait, I'm POSITIVE that we're not that exciting.

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Jennifer -- Glad the testing put you at ease and good to know Miles is OK. I am sure Jack probably has the same issue, but will be nice to get him checked out. Is there a general agency in WI that I can contact or did you have to have a referral?


Good luck tonight!

5:00 PM

 
Blogger Robyn said...

I'm happy for you and Miles. No more worrying! I'm sure he'll catch up just in time, and then he probably won't stop talking!

4:28 AM

 
Blogger Jennifer said...

Yes sometimes just knowing can out you at ease, and now you know how to deal with it! Best of luck

11:47 AM

 
Blogger ErinMary said...

Thomas had his first speech eval at 24 months, and his receptive language skills were also on par. We did decide to have the therapist come once a week for six weeks, and it made a wonderful difference. Once he could speak, the tantrums were much less frequent.
Good for you for having him evaluated!

9:56 PM

 

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