need suggestions for seeking speech eval

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Hi all,

My son (age 5) has autism with severe speech delay - his receptive language is

about 3 1/2 yr level and expressive is around 2 1/2. He has never been diagnosed

with apraxia, though I suspect it.

Anyway, I want to take him for another evaluation by a speech specialist but I'm

not sure who to go to. He has been evaluated by several speech therapists over

the years who basically do the bare minimum evaluation to verify that he

qualifies (i.e. insurance will pay) for speech therapy.

I should add that his progress in speech therapy has been verrrrry slow, though

he has made some and I am confident that he can make more progress with the

right type of diagnosis and help.

Thanks!

- Meghan