Speech/language disorder vs. possibly more

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Does anyone in the group have any experience with processing issues that go

beyond speech/language disorders?

I have an eligibility meeting on Thursday regarding my daughter's testing. She

has been in speech since she was 22 months old. Every time I've brought up any

issue about the possiblity of her having a processing issue, I keep being told

that it's her speech. No one would listen to me that it was a processing issue.

So far, the testing has come back pretty confusing. She has scored pretty much

average on everything. The things she has lower scores for do point to

processing, according to those who tested her. For her psychological scores, she

scored poorly in only 2 areas. One being vocabulary, and the other being short

term memory. Which the psychologist said would highly impact her academics. The

person who did her educational evaluation had a lot of " on the fence " averages,

but did have some lower scores in comprehension and reading.

is currently making D's on almost all her papers. Her spelling is coming

back with low scores. She's spelling as she hears it, and not necessarily

recalling the " rules " of vowel sounds, etc.

The teacher's scores on 's attention came back fine. However, mine came back

high. I hate those things that the parent has to answer because I might not be

answering them the way they " see " the questions. So I don't know what this is

going to do. I don't think she has ADD or ADHD. I think that the inattention is

related to the processing. But the psychologist is concerned that I am seeing

things here that is not going on in the classroom. So I feel as if they are

going to say that the homelife impacts the issues. When it doesn't necessarily.

She does the same things one-on-one with my mom. My mom lives alone (my dad

passed away in 2002), and she sees the same things that we see at home with all

of us here.

My question to those who have similiar stories, is where do you draw the line

between just a speech/language issue vs. a real processing disorder? Even the

psychologist said today that he thinks we may get into the meeting on Thursday

and they say that it's a severe speech disorder, and them may have to " name " it.

I want to get beyond the speech/language disorder label. I don't care if the

reason for eligibility is headed under speech/language disorders, but I do want

them to acknowledge that is goes beyond the speech and is a processing, thus a

separate disorder that is impacting her speech/language to begin with.

Any help will be greatly appreciated. From everything I am hearing, she is able

to do the work, but she is bring home D's and F's. (Very few A's or B's.) (She's

3rd-grade.)

Thanks in advance.

-Melinda