Educational evals

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Sally wrote---

I am looking into taking her

for an evaluation at The e School in St. Louis, The Sunshine School in

San An, or Dr. Isquith who is in land (or somewhere East). If any

of you have experience with one of these (or any other) in terms of

educational evaluations, I would greatly appreciate you sharing your opinions

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Hi Sally - our older son, who is in first grade (he's 7) had the Comprehensive

Education Evaluation at e School this past summer (about two months ago).

My husband and I were very, very pleased with the entire process. Both my kids

are hoh - both are mainstreamed (older is in first grade, younger is in his last

year of preschool - he's 5) - I believe both are the only kids in their

respective classes with hearing loss. Tom's school recommended the CEE at

e and they paid for it (the pricetag was not cheap - I believe in the

neighborhood of $2,000). It took two days (I understand during the normal

school year, the eval actually lasts three days) and was totally exhausting.

They did everything - soup to nuts. Educational, audiological, speech,

psychological (what am I missing)? Then when all the testing was complete, we

had an exit meeting to go over the results. Then about a month later, we

received an incredibly comprehensive report with recommendations for us, the

classroom teacher, etc., etc. I thought it was very worthwhile.

If you want to email me offline about it, I'd be glad to answer any questions.

Good luck!

Barbara