Re: Re: IQ and Speech Tests for Apraxic Children

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As long as the school SLP documents via testing & report where your child is

functioning at now, that will help her have a starting point for therapy and

help u advocate for other or more services if he doesn't make progress. IF he

has not had receptive/ expressive language testing AND he will cooperate with

it, then I would recommend it for the same above reasons. If the school SLP does

not recommend it, then ask her to state why not in the report & discuss his

informal language skills. Since I don't know your son, I would defer to the pvt

& school SLPs who know him well to decide on the testing. If your school SLP

doesn't want to test but your pvt SLP feels testing would be good, have her do

it.

Warmest wishes,

Barbara A , M.S.,CCC-SLP

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On Feb 21, 2011, at 4:08 PM, " igreene_88 " <ivygreene88@...> wrote:

> Barbara- thank you for this great list of tests! I will ask what testing my

district is doing specifically. We had planning meet late last friday, now we

all have a week off of school!! so I have to wait till next week to call them.

>

> For a 3.5yr old that hardly has many sounds (regressed from 1.5yrs ago) seems

I don't need to push for many detailed tests..as long as the SLP has a good

starting point...and they will get closer to seeing what to work on, when they

actually start working with my son..right?

>

> any other advice, all ears..thanks!!

> Ivy

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> > For kids with apraxia, I use:

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> > VMPAC & /or KSPT (Kaufman Speech Praxis Test) & Goldman Fristoe Test of

> > Articulation 2 (GFTA2) & my own oral motor/eating analysis

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> > I select each test based on the child's needs, strengths, age, and

> > anticipated level of cooperation with tests. The VMPAC is great but is a

> > long test and it's challenging for young kids. If a child is not yet

> > producing many sounds, I may only use the GFTA2 & analyze the error

> > patterns. If a child is only producing a few sounds, I may only use my

> > o-m/eating analysis. When a child has multiple word approximations but is

> > not yet clear, I use the VMPAC, GFTA2, and my own analysis.

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> > Warmest wishes,

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> > Barbara

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> > Subject: [ ] IQ and Speech Tests for Apraxic Children

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> > I am wondering WHAT tests are good to have as a baseline standard, and have

> > your children gotten ALL or many of these, which ones?

> >

> > My son is 3.5yrs old with severe verbal apraxia, (he has been dx many times,

> > so I am not looking for testing to necessarily tell me he has this). He has

> > never gotten any standarized testing done, even though we have many, many

> > evals done in the past 2 years. The ONLY one he has gotten is a " Preschool

> > Language Scale:4th ed " by a SLP who said she worked with and knew apraxia

> > well..hmmm.

> >

> > These are some of the tests I have found in my research, are they used

> > often?

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> > Are some better than others?

> > who gives these tests?

> > Do I demand my school district to use some of these?

> >

> > Do I have these done privately before he starts with his IEP to judge for

> > ourselves a baseline?

> >

> > FOR SPEECH:

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> > Verbal Motor Production Assessment for Children (VMPAC)

> > the Apraxia Profile

> > Kaufman Speech Praxis test

> > the Screening Test for Developmental Apraxia of Speech (STDAS-2)

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> > FOR IQ TESTING:

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> > Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (Kaufman-ABC)

> > Leiter International Performance Scale (Leiter-2)

> > Test of Non-Verbal Intelligence 2 (TONI-2) for ages 5 and up

> >

> > thank you all so much for your help with my questions!!

> > Ivy

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