Apraxia, Articulation Disorder, MFE results/IEP

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Ok, Ds2 was originally diagnosed with Speech apraxia at age 2...he has had

almost 3 years of speech therapy and has made signficant improvements.

In june of last year, his last eval by the private speech therapist put him as

follows:

Receptive - 98%

Expressive - 58%

Articulation - 4%

They just did testing to transition from pre-school to school age and basically

these are his raw scores...

Receptive - 135

Expressive - 133 (cannot remember what each individual test within this was, but

lowest was like a 128, and the 133 was the combined).

We were told average for his age was 100, with 115 being like the cut off for

high/above average. His scores put him at about a 3rd grade vocabulary level,

even though he was in preschool. They think a lot of it is due to the fact that

when he for instance cannot properly say the word " sheep " , he will figure out

another word or definition, and in this case say " lamb " . Another example is

" binoculars " , he will say " you look through them " . They even mentioned he might

be " gifted " .

He still has major articulation issues, and they didn't show the percent. I

don't have all his papers right now from the school assessment, but hopefully

will have them in a few days....

Is it possible for a child who has Apraxia to be like this. Most people can

understand his normal conversational speech with little difficulty. Hubby still

has problems at times and so do others who are not familiar with him, but I am

getting to the point (and so are his siblings) of understanding or knowing what

his saying about 95% of the time, even with the articulation errors in it.

I also find it hard to believe that there has been such a significant change in

about 6-9 months (between his private ST and the public schools ST testing

results).

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looks like giftedness and he will probably be bored if in a classroom with

regular teaching practices for K kids.

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> Ok, Ds2 was originally diagnosed with Speech apraxia at age 2...he has had

almost 3 years of speech therapy and has made signficant improvements.

>

> In june of last year, his last eval by the private speech therapist put him as

follows:

> Receptive - 98%

> Expressive - 58%

> Articulation - 4%

>

> They just did testing to transition from pre-school to school age and

basically these are his raw scores...

> Receptive - 135

> Expressive - 133 (cannot remember what each individual test within this was,

but lowest was like a 128, and the 133 was the combined).

>

> We were told average for his age was 100, with 115 being like the cut off for

high/above average. His scores put him at about a 3rd grade vocabulary level,

even though he was in preschool. They think a lot of it is due to the fact that

when he for instance cannot properly say the word " sheep " , he will figure out

another word or definition, and in this case say " lamb " . Another example is

" binoculars " , he will say " you look through them " . They even mentioned he might

be " gifted " .

>

> He still has major articulation issues, and they didn't show the percent. I

don't have all his papers right now from the school assessment, but hopefully

will have them in a few days....

>

> Is it possible for a child who has Apraxia to be like this. Most people can

understand his normal conversational speech with little difficulty. Hubby still

has problems at times and so do others who are not familiar with him, but I am

getting to the point (and so are his siblings) of understanding or knowing what

his saying about 95% of the time, even with the articulation errors in it.

>

> I also find it hard to believe that there has been such a significant change

in about 6-9 months (between his private ST and the public schools ST testing

results).

>