Sigh. I think I understand why he got discharged from speech when he did last year still with the errors he was making. The SLP understood everything he said during the testing.
I understand about 80%. The difference in his speech between a clinical setting and home is huge. DS talks about more complicated things, faster, and with mumble set to High. He did not do this during the testing. We're to go back in two years if his /r/ still isn't in place.
Most other adults who know DS also report understanding everything. He does not talk to them about the same sorts of things he talks about at home, nor with the same complexity. His last babysitter, DH, and myself then are the only people who report such problems. I'm now tasked with keeping notes on it, and it does seem to be a lot of mumbling, coupled with poor grammar, and unusual choice of topics or words.
She did not observe other speech quirks the audiologist and interprets the description of "thinking too much." While I might add that to the list of 'wowed by the scores' DS did verbalize a lot of what he was thinking, in a few places giving two to three options of what he could have answered, or in describing a multi-step way to his answer.
The 'thinking too much' hypothesis explains about half of the slow responses we see. The others really looks to me as what we've started to call "taking the scenic route" through the brain.
In other news, I asked my grade level equivalent question to the school psychologist. He has failed to answer that question still, but he has started the process of scheduling an educational team meeting. That could be the first step to getting DS accelerated in math, and it can be the first step for more testing. Either way, it's a forum for me to bring forward strengths and weaknesses.
I'm also taking notes on issues to discuss in the trip to the psychologist, and working to justify to DH the need for private testing ($1800).
Last edited by geofizz; 09/01/11 03:25 AM.
