Appropriate Speech/Language Tests

January 21, 2002

Hi -- We're coming up on annual review - my son turns 5 in May.

Have been discussing my with son's private therapist the appropriate testing

for my son -- his comprehension is high - his problem is expressive language,

word-finding, pragmatics, some language processing. The typical tests, CELF,

TOLD(TELD), etc. don't get at the root of the problem - He will probably

score at age or above on these types of tests - I need suggestions on more

appropriate tests, which would be likely to recognized by our school district

- If any of you have a " strategy " , I'd appreciate it.

(mom of 3 great kids - one with hyptonia/apraxia/dyarthria)

January 22, 2002

My son , turned 5 in August 2001, scored above average on most of the

speech and language tests when he was being tested for re-classification.

They stopped scoring him when he had reached a comprehensive level of a 12

year old!

Basically that put us out of the Communication Impaired category. Luckily

the child study team decided that they really needed to look at the whole

picture and pushed for a Specific Learning Disability classification in

order to get him classified to get him the extra help. At first I was

concerned that the classification was not accurate but I guess it serves its

purpose and was enrolled in the ECLLD (Early Child Learning and

Language Disabled) class.

If you encounter the same problem ask your child study team if they can try

an alternate classification.

Mikosz

[ ] Appropriate Speech/Language Tests

Hi -- We're coming up on annual review - my son turns 5 in May.

Have been discussing my with son's private therapist the appropriate testing

for my son -- his comprehension is high - his problem is expressive

language,

word-finding, pragmatics, some language processing. The typical tests,

CELF,

TOLD(TELD), etc. don't get at the root of the problem - He will probably

score at age or above on these types of tests - I need suggestions on more

appropriate tests, which would be likely to recognized by our school

district

- If any of you have a " strategy " , I'd appreciate it.

(mom of 3 great kids - one with hyptonia/apraxia/dyarthria)

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