I'm new here. Anyone else have a gifted child who has a speech fluency disorder or stutters?
My DS is in 1st grade and stutters. I'm already running into problems with the school not recognizing his ability level because of his speech disorder. When speaking, DS uses a lot of interjections (um, uh), substitutes words to avoid saying a tricky word or will just give up, so it gives the impression that he doesn't know the answer when he does, he's just having trouble talking.
Another problem I've had is that I haven't been able to convince the school that the timed oral reading tests (ie. aimsweb; DIEBLS) shouldn't be used with DS. The school just points to the fact that DS's score is high so they dismiss my concerns. grrr...just because the score is high doesn't mean that his speech difficulty isn't lowering the score.
