Speech Therapy advice/info

[andwhat]

I am no help, but good luck navigating it all.

[divanerd]

We did sessions at a speech therapy office at 3.5 last year for a little bit for stuttering he grew out of it...
Hang in there

[barcelonagirl]

We went into prek k as preschool disabiled because of speech. I also had him evaluated with a developmental pediatrician which is a shit ton of paperwork and such. The school will only pay if they really have too. In my case they had too. Kid was 3 but was 18 months behind (but i understood him ya know)

A second opinion with the developmental was covered by insurance but damn it was expensive.

He ended up entering k mainstream. It was a struggle for me to get over myself and act. I am happy you're moving forward
Good luck

[barcelonagirl]

And yes. In NJ we have ESY (extended school year for special ed) so he could get help this summer from the district for free if he was in NJ.

I'd also document everything with the district as a lot of thia stuff is statutory. I was surprused when they sent me the little book of code!

[orangeblossom]

No kids, but just wanted to say good luck with the evaluation and services.

[barcelonagirl]

May 6, 2017 11:07:22 GMT -5 @246baje said:

May 6, 2017 9:09:30 GMT -5 barcelonagirl said:

And yes. In NJ we have ESY (extended school year for special ed) so he could get help this summer from the district for free if he was in NJ.

I'd also document everything with the district as a lot of thia stuff is statutory. I was surprused when they sent me the little book of code!

That is great to hear! I hope it's the same for extended school year access in TX.

Yeah it's a bit of a shock because when asked I was like yeah, I thought that's how all 5 year olds sounded. But I had noticed he had trouble saying certain words. I just thought it was normal.

Honestly you're always on your guard when your child is of color. My kid is one of few black children in the district. I didn't want him to be pigeonholed. My district has been great. But keep your eyes open.

[barefootlolli]

May 7, 2017 8:42:57 GMT -5 @246baje said:

May 6, 2017 20:19:20 GMT -5 barcelonagirl said:

Honestly you're always on your guard when your child is of color. My kid is one of few black children in the district. I didn't want him to be pigeonholed. My district has been great. But keep your eyes open.

That's a great reminder.

I was planning to send DS to private K this year because I don't want him to go to the elementary school we are zoned too. My primary reason is that the black kids are failing. Our house is for sale so we can enroll him in a school where the black kids are excelling but it's been super slow. The market has softened considerably.

However I know he can get more access in public school but what good is access if he goes to a school where the black kids are seen as the struggling kids and he has to prove himself different. That will be doubly hard if he has a SN label.

So we are slashing the house price and are trying desperately to get out.

Lolligoespop, it won't let me login.  You can opt to get him private services, where an SLP can visit him at private kinder.  This was an issue with us. Even though my daughter scores low on standardized speech assessments, she doesn't score low enough to get services via an IEP. So, an SLP visits her twice a week at her charter school.  If she were at a traditional public she'd be shit out of luck, because private therapists can't see kids at traditional public schools.

[dr.girlfriend]

I think speech dysfluency / stuttering is still quite common at that age. I can't remember exactly when DS had it, but he did and grew out of it, as did many of his cousins. If he's having other articulation problems, though, that might have raised the warning flags with the pedi. Honestly, the bigger problem is a more general expressive language disorder, which would involve weaknesses in things like sentence structure and vocabulary, so hopefully your speech and language evaluation would look at all aspects of speech and language to rule that out. I would also think about asking the pedi if you should have an assessment by an audiologist -- a lot of speech articulation problems can be related to mild or fluctuating hearing impairments.

[thejackpot]

Don't have anything new to share. Good luck navigating it all

[pb127]

May 6, 2017 11:07:22 GMT -5 @246baje said:

May 6, 2017 9:09:30 GMT -5 barcelonagirl said:

And yes. In NJ we have ESY (extended school year for special ed) so he could get help this summer from the district for free if he was in NJ.

I'd also document everything with the district as a lot of thia stuff is statutory. I was surprused when they sent me the little book of code!

That is great to hear! I hope it's the same for extended school year access in TX.

Yeah it's a bit of a shock because when asked I was like yeah, I thought that's how all 5 year olds sounded. But I had noticed he had trouble saying certain words. I just thought it was normal.

TX- I'm in Texas too (Houston). I've been told multiple times that the ISD has to provide services for a child at private schools too but you have to request it. My friend is a SLP in CY Fair and said that her colleague only goes to private school kids within the CF district boundaries. 

We have been done private for a while without much progress and are now doing speech at UH with better results/outcomes. They have a summer program at UH as well. I'm not sure if you're in Houston, but if you are and want any info on the above, let me know (I'm an occasional poster who is a WOC).

[pb127]

May 10, 2017 12:52:08 GMT -5 @246baje said:

May 10, 2017 12:51:12 GMT -5 pb127 said:

TX- I'm in Texas too (Houston). I've been told multiple times that the ISD has to provide services for a child at private schools too but you have to request it. My friend is a SLP in CY Fair and said that her colleague only goes to private school kids within the CF district boundaries. 

We have been done private for a while without much progress and are now doing speech at UH with better results/outcomes. They have a summer program at UH as well. I'm not sure if you're in Houston, but if you are and want any info on the above, let me know (I'm an occasional poster who is a WOC).

For sure! I would love that.

I sent you a PM.

[DesertMoon]

My daughter had about 8 speech therapy sessions early on. She had no words not even mama. She began to talk immediately. Idk if it was the therapy or just her time but I would suggest going for it. I did 8 sessions because that's what insurance covered for the year.