The verdict is in..

Yesterday I had Caleb's Final Speech Review.  We went over test scores, talked about accomplishments and goals and put a plan into action.


Here are some of the details:

• He has excellent gross and fine motor skills, and in some cases was off the chart (super fast at putting puzzles together, even ones with tiny small pieces)
• His verbal, performance and full scale IQ's are right on target (He's a smart little guy)
  
• His social/emotional and adaptive behavior are also right where they should be.
• Then we get to speech and language..

1. He did excellent at interpreting spoken sentences of increasing length and complexity.
2. He didn't do so well at morphology and using appropriate pronouns.
3. He did significantly below average on articulation. (Which was really no surprise, and our main reason for getting the testing.)
4. He has difficulty with several sounds varying on where they are located in the word.  He drops certain sounds in both the initial (beginning), medial (middle) and final (ending) position of a word.
5. He also had difficulty with L, R, and S blends (such as bl, gl, sl, sp, dr, i.e....)
6. His biggest issues are both the S blends, and deletion of the final consanants (i.e. hou for house)

• They also tested him for hearing, vision, and if there are any physical reasons why he would be unable to make certain sounds.  He did great on all these tests, and for the exception of his missing front teeth (which would make s and f sounds more like sh) he is perfectly capable of hearing, and making the needed sounds.

So, Caleb will start Speech Therapy twice a week for 30 min.  Their first goals are:

• /s/ clusters
• Final Consonant Deletions 
• Medial Consonant Deletion
• Velar Fronting /k/ and /g/
  

If he needs more time they might add a day, and another one on one workshop (Language Builders).


We are excited to start work on this, and he is thriving in his preschool environment and he is doing fantastic socially.  Both speech therapists and teachers believe he will be prepared to start Kindergarten next fall.


So there ya have it, lots of words I know, but wanted to share all the nitty gritty details, just in case you wanted to know!!