Need help interpreting Speech Testing done by School

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Hi all-

We just went through the process of another IEP Meeting... it is hard to believe

that it has been a year since the first meeting!

Our son is age 3 years, 10 months old. He has a diagnosis of Moderate to Severe

Apraxia, and Receptive/expressive language disorder. He attends a Pre K that has

a mix of kids with special needs and " typical kids " . Our Son receives 2 30

minute pullout ST sessions per week in this class.

Prior to this meeting, the School conducted various forms of testing on my Son.

We had the results prior to the IEP Meeting... yet... there was no explanation

of what these results meant. We asked about this during the IEP Meeting, and

were told that these tests were done to see if our son still qualifies.... I

asked for copies of the test forms... and was told that they do not do that. I

looked up these tests on the net prior to the meeting.. and was able to find

several case studies of kids who had similar results. These kids were

considered to be in a VERY LOW DEVELOPMENTAL RANGE! I also could see that the

scores of this test are usually translated into percentiles.... which was not

done by the School... I feel they did not want me to know the percentiles...

because they knew I would refer to " The Matrix " to push for more pullout. No

matter how we pushed for more info, we were not given it.... SO-- we have

scores.... but we have no clue what the heck they mean-- other than what I was

able to find out on the Net!

Can anyone give me insight re the following:

1. CELF-P2 test...

Three receptive subtests of the CELF-P2 were administered to assess Tyler's

understanding of language... these subtests have a mean scaled standard score

of 10 and a standard deviation of 3.

Tylers scores on each subtest as follows:

1. Sentence structure subtest 6

2. Concepts and following directions 4

3. Basic Concepts 7

these scores yield a Receptive Language Index Standard score of 75.

Three expressive language subtests of the CELF-P2 were administered to assess

Tyler's use of language. These subtests had a standard score of 10 and a

standard deviation of 3.

Tylers scores are as follows:

1. word Structure 6

2. Expressive Vocabulary 1

3. Recalling sentences 4

these scores yield an Expressive Language Index standard score of 63.

When Sentence Structure, Word Structure and Expressive Vocabulary subtests are

combined, they yield a Core Language Score of 67.

***** when I looked for more info on the Net-- it seemed that the Core Language

Score of 67 is in the very low developmental range. Also, it seemed that there

were other parts of this test missing in the results given to me.... there was

no info given to me about the Language structure and Language index scores... (I

was told that this was not done). These scores are useless to me if I do not

know what they mean.... All that we were told, over and over are that these

scores are " qualifying scores " .... YES-- I got that.... but why would they not

tell me what the darn numbers MEAN?

NEXT TEST

The Goldman Fristoe Test of Articulation-2 (GFTA-2)...

Tyler received a standard score of 61

NEXT TEST:

The Battelle-- per the write up in the IEP, Tyler's teachers were interviewed

using the Battelle Developmental Inventory- 2nd Edition to report on Ty's self

help skills. He obtained a Developmental Quotient of 78. His Cognitive

Development Score was 70.

I AM FAMILIAR WITH THIS TEST-- and I pointed out to them how Tyler's Cognitive

Score has decreased from a 77 to a 70 since the last Battelle, which was done 16

months ago. I also asked for a copy of the complete Battelle Scoring Sheet--

which includes Scaled Scores... and Standard Deviations. I was told that they do

not use this... and they do not have this to give me.

GRRR-- without this info, I have no way of knowing where my son falls.... and

there is also no way to use the Matrix as a tool without this info!

Any insight would be appreciated! We tried to get the pullout increased from two

to three 30 minute sessions per week... and were told no.... We are considering

Mediation to resolve this... especially since we were not provided with info on

" what the above results mean " .

thanks for putting up with long note!