Laila's speech evaluation
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sashagee took Laila to a speech evaluation. I've mentioned that she's been behind for a while, but only in expressive speech--she'll understand multi-stage instructions and I just talk to her using grown-up sentence structures at this point. Still, she has a hard time putting sentences together and it's especially obvious when she's in a group of her peers, hence the evaluation. I heard from sashagee that she came away very reassured, but it wasn't until later that I got the details.
To wit: they seemed to think it was more of an occupational therapy issue rather than a speech therapy issue.sashagee has mentioned she feels like Laila is just thinking much too quickly and the words don't have any time to get out, so she needs some help slowing down and reconnecting her mind and body (coupled with a bit of speech therapy to smooth the process out). Now if you've been following the story of Laila for a while, you may remember that Laila was in both speech and occupational therapy years ago, but graduated out of them. The person doing the assessment this time was pretty dismissive of Laila's previous therapists--sashagee told me that she said this was definitely something they should have noticed and they must "not have been very good" (direct quote)--but had some recommendations for therapists in the city for us to look in to, so that's the next step. At least from what sashagee said, this should hopefully be something that doesn't take that much time and then Laila will unlock her language. Hopefully that's the case.
sashagee took Laila to a speech evaluation. I've mentioned that she's been behind for a while, but only in expressive speech--she'll understand multi-stage instructions and I just talk to her using grown-up sentence structures at this point. Still, she has a hard time putting sentences together and it's especially obvious when she's in a group of her peers, hence the evaluation. I heard from sashagee that she came away very reassured, but it wasn't until later that I got the details.To wit: they seemed to think it was more of an occupational therapy issue rather than a speech therapy issue.
sashagee has mentioned she feels like Laila is just thinking much too quickly and the words don't have any time to get out, so she needs some help slowing down and reconnecting her mind and body (coupled with a bit of speech therapy to smooth the process out). Now if you've been following the story of Laila for a while, you may remember that Laila was in both speech and occupational therapy years ago, but graduated out of them. The person doing the assessment this time was pretty dismissive of Laila's previous therapists--sashagee told me that she said this was definitely something they should have noticed and they must "not have been very good" (direct quote)--but had some recommendations for therapists in the city for us to look in to, so that's the next step. At least from what sashagee said, this should hopefully be something that doesn't take that much time and then Laila will unlock her language. Hopefully that's the case.
