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?

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:

Verbal Motor Production Assessment for Children (VMPAC)

the Apraxia Profile

Kaufman Speech Praxis test

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

FOR IQ TESTING:

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