Re: Auditory Processing Issues

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If your son is on the Autism Spectrum he should have some pretty specific

" pragmatic " speech goals (conversational speech). Pam

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I cant believe that. my son is high functioning and his speech is pretty

well these days.other than some stuttering .but I was told that Social

skills group was including in his speech at his school. I cant imagine any

child on the spectrum..not needing speech or even social skills..and i agree

with Pam. he should have very specific goals..

hope this helps

Robin

On 4/11/06, ppanda65@... <ppanda65@...> wrote:

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Subject: ( ) Auditory Processing Issues

Hello All,

I'm hoping someone might be able to help me.

My son's school speech therapist informed me that she is suggesting that

he be dropped from individual speech as he " no longer needs it " . Yes, my

son is very verbal, but he has issues with conversation, rate of speech,

intelligibility and auditory processing issues. I am looking for a good and

thorough evaluation of my son for auditory processing issues so that perhaps

his individual speech is not dropped. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!!

Thanks Again!!

" No longer needs it " should be a lot more specific than that to drop a

service from an IEP, IMO. In order to drop ST, I would request that a full

speech evaluation be done, including all the areas you are talking about

(pragmatics and auditory processing.)

Now if the teacher is not familiar with these areas or unwilling to take it

seriously or has no clue how to test for anything, I would disagree with her

report and then request an Independent Evaluation at the school's expense.

Then you can get a real evaluation done by a hopefully impartial third

party.

The times I have had to do this, I have prevailed. However, getting the

services in the IEP is only half the battle. You are still left with the

therapist who didn't want to do this in the first place! That is the

frustrating part. However, don't let it stop you from pursuing this because

you may get lucky and she may rise to the occasion once she realizes you are

serious!

Roxanna

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