Gifted Mom

Well, we’re coming up on our six month anniversary of Z starting speech therapy.  Time sure does fly!  Little Z is now 30 months old and talking up a storm.  He had a tremendous spurt in language in the past month and will be graduating from private speech therapy next week!  He’s now officially average, which [...]

Since my last update, Z has now had two sessions with Early Intervention.  It would have been three, but the speech pathologist needed to reschedule our session today, which actually was pretty poor timing since this was the first week that I dropped Z’s second session of private therapy.  My thought was that he should hopefully [...]

Before Thanksgiving early intervention came out to reevaluate Z’s speech.  Despite our report from CHOP that clearly stated his articulation issues are not developmental, EI still resisted qualifying him for speech under their guidelines.  They were, however, concerned about his drooling and low muscle tone and said they could qualify him for services due to those [...]

Z’s finally had his expert speech evaluation yesterday.  In my area, it just doesn’t get any better than CHOP.  So far I’ve gotten a mix of opinions, though the only group to say that Z doesn’t need speech therapy has been Early Intervention.  It’s not really in their interests to offer more kids services, after all.  [...]

So I heard back from an Early Intervention speech therapist about Z’s problem with initial consonant deletion.  She started the conversation by saying she has 30 years of experience in the field and has taught graduate level courses.  She seemed to stress her experience and credentials throughout the call.  I’m not sure if she does that [...]