We had 3 - Three (!?)- speech evals for ds between 2.5 - 4 (ish). We went through EI, then a local university clinic, and lastly a private therapist. Though incidental, our experiences were very similar at each setting as far as recommendations: his phonetic delays were developmentally 'normal ' (they should self-correct) and we were doing at home everything ds needed to improve. I really appreciated each eval. The first with EI was probably the most biased as they did speech and were required to do developmental. My stinking 2 year old was in rare form, reading the pages, doing somersaults, discussing math - be probably would have needed to be not talking at ALL to qualify. Just a warning.
