Receptive language delay/processing disorder

[Anonymous]

OP,

An evaluated by a developmental pediatrician would be helpful. It will give you possibly a diagnosis but more importantly a roadmap of what services/therapy to do and help provide insurance coverage for them.

Many speech therapists will do an assessment before working with your child. They'll set out goals.

An ABA therapist is helpful if your child refuses to things, has frequent meltdowns, but at a basic level help you as a parent to interact with your kid so when there are problems with communication you can learn behavioral strategies to help your child.

[Anonymous]

My son had this when he was younger - I was very worried. Take your child for an evaluation with Dr. Stephen Camarata in Nashville — he is an expert and everything he predicted was true. My son is in a mainstream private, Honor Roll, lots of friends. Get lots of speech therapy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son had this when he was younger - I was very worried. Take your child for an evaluation with Dr. Stephen Camarata in Nashville — he is an expert and everything he predicted was true. My son is in a mainstream private, Honor Roll, lots of friends. Get lots of speech therapy.

NP here. When did your son begin to catch up? How were things when he was younger?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP,

An evaluated by a developmental pediatrician would be helpful. It will give you possibly a diagnosis but more importantly a roadmap of what services/therapy to do and help provide insurance coverage for them.

Many speech therapists will do an assessment before working with your child. They'll set out goals.

An ABA therapist is helpful if your child refuses to things, has frequent meltdowns, but at a basic level help you as a parent to interact with your kid so when there are problems with communication you can learn behavioral strategies to help your child.

A developmental ped is not helpful in language disorders as they are generalists, not specialists in language. Very few can distinguish specifics. A good SLP will be more helpful. ABA is not good for language disorders due to the rigid style treatment even with a relaxed provider.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son had this when he was younger - I was very worried. Take your child for an evaluation with Dr. Stephen Camarata in Nashville — he is an expert and everything he predicted was true. My son is in a mainstream private, Honor Roll, lots of friends. Get lots of speech therapy.

Agree with lots of speech therapy. Dr. Camarata is not doing assessments like he used to. He does it with another SLP. The other SLP we had was terrible. She wrote the report and it was useless. Just a few raw test scores and I tried to contact him and he blew us off. In person he's great and can give you good information but anything beyond that is a waste of time.

A good SLP to work on it and give your child tools to be successful is far more helpful. Often it doesn't fully start to get better till 7-8 or later.

[Anonymous]

I’d suggest working with Mary Camarata. She’s working on her own and is just fantastic

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP,

An evaluated by a developmental pediatrician would be helpful. It will give you possibly a diagnosis but more importantly a roadmap of what services/therapy to do and help provide insurance coverage for them.

Many speech therapists will do an assessment before working with your child. They'll set out goals.

An ABA therapist is helpful if your child refuses to things, has frequent meltdowns, but at a basic level help you as a parent to interact with your kid so when there are problems with communication you can learn behavioral strategies to help your child.

A developmental ped is not helpful in language disorders as they are generalists, not specialists in language. Very few can distinguish specifics. A good SLP will be more helpful. ABA is not good for language disorders due to the rigid style treatment even with a relaxed provider.

A developmental pediatrician is absolutely helpful b/c lots of issues can be related to speech delays. Look at the whole child.

Your post reminds me of ones I've seen in the past from a mom really bitter over her son's autism diagnosis. Developmental pediatricians diagnose more than that, and ABA is for helping with behavior, so time to let go your obvious prejudices, pp.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP,

An evaluated by a developmental pediatrician would be helpful. It will give you possibly a diagnosis but more importantly a roadmap of what services/therapy to do and help provide insurance coverage for them.

Many speech therapists will do an assessment before working with your child. They'll set out goals.

An ABA therapist is helpful if your child refuses to things, has frequent meltdowns, but at a basic level help you as a parent to interact with your kid so when there are problems with communication you can learn behavioral strategies to help your child.

A developmental ped is not helpful in language disorders as they are generalists, not specialists in language. Very few can distinguish specifics. A good SLP will be more helpful. ABA is not good for language disorders due to the rigid style treatment even with a relaxed provider.

A developmental pediatrician is absolutely helpful b/c lots of issues can be related to speech delays. Look at the whole child.

Your post reminds me of ones I've seen in the past from a mom really bitter over her son's autism diagnosis. Developmental pediatricians diagnose more than that, and ABA is for helping with behavior, so time to let go your obvious prejudices, pp.

This might be the same mom.

OP, PP is correct, you want some who will look at the whole child, like a developmental pediatrician. Language disorders often have comorbidities, so you'll want someone to be looking out for those other things. Meanwhile, an SLP will be able assess and work on the language issues. It's not something where you have to choose one or the other.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP,

An evaluated by a developmental pediatrician would be helpful. It will give you possibly a diagnosis but more importantly a roadmap of what services/therapy to do and help provide insurance coverage for them.

Many speech therapists will do an assessment before working with your child. They'll set out goals.

An ABA therapist is helpful if your child refuses to things, has frequent meltdowns, but at a basic level help you as a parent to interact with your kid so when there are problems with communication you can learn behavioral strategies to help your child.

A developmental ped is not helpful in language disorders as they are generalists, not specialists in language. Very few can distinguish specifics. A good SLP will be more helpful. ABA is not good for language disorders due to the rigid style treatment even with a relaxed provider.

A developmental pediatrician is absolutely helpful b/c lots of issues can be related to speech delays. Look at the whole child.

Your post reminds me of ones I've seen in the past from a mom really bitter over her son's autism diagnosis. Developmental pediatricians diagnose more than that, and ABA is for helping with behavior, so time to let go your obvious prejudices, pp.

This might be the same mom.

OP, PP is correct, you want some who will look at the whole child, like a developmental pediatrician. Language disorders often have comorbidities, so you'll want someone to be looking out for those other things. Meanwhile, an SLP will be able assess and work on the language issues. It's not something where you have to choose one or the other.

Exactly this. You go to specialists who can give you useful, guiding information and/or develop skills.

[Anonymous]

Language disorders can be co-morbid but not all are. OP is not identifying any other issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Language disorders can be co-morbid but not all are. OP is not identifying any other issue.

Hard for the OP to know if she hadn't seen a developmental pediatrician.

[Anonymous]

I have a child with a severe receptive language disorder. Speech therapy helps around the edges, but the only thing that has truly helped is time.

I would go to the best of the best for language. A university speech and language research department, or Mary or Stephen Camarata since they work separately now.

[Anonymous]

Adding to above: We saw many SLPs and other evaluators, but they were not very knowledgeable. They shrugged or suggested "apraxia." It wasn't until we saw the Camaratas that they nailed down my son's issues. Their testing showed a child with a typical nonverbal IQ and social communication but bottom percentile receptive skills that were dragging him down across the board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Language disorders can be co-morbid but not all are. OP is not identifying any other issue.

Hard for the OP to know if she hadn't seen a developmental pediatrician.

Agree. Most of the time when kids are evaluated it is not because their parents are identifying a host of concerns. It is usually something like "He doesn't talk like his brother did". Someone who can do a comprehensive evaluation, like a psychologist or developmental pediatrician, would be best. If there really are no other issues, then the testing will show that.

Also, testing can be a great way to identify strengths. My kid had a language delay but was strong at identifying letters and letter sounds. I had no idea and it was pretty much the only skill that was above average. It was the push I need to hire a literacy specialist to work with him the year I held him back from Kindergarten and kept him in a play based preschool. His speech pathologist kept coming to his school to work on language and social skills, then at home he learned to read. When he started Kindergarten having that foundation in reading was so helpful. He struggled with everything else but having that one skill gave him confidence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Language disorders can be co-morbid but not all are. OP is not identifying any other issue.

Hard for the OP to know if she hadn't seen a developmental pediatrician.

Agree. Most of the time when kids are evaluated it is not because their parents are identifying a host of concerns. It is usually something like "He doesn't talk like his brother did". Someone who can do a comprehensive evaluation, like a psychologist or developmental pediatrician, would be best. If there really are no other issues, then the testing will show that.

Also, testing can be a great way to identify strengths. My kid had a language delay but was strong at identifying letters and letter sounds. I had no idea and it was pretty much the only skill that was above average. It was the push I need to hire a literacy specialist to work with him the year I held him back from Kindergarten and kept him in a play based preschool. His speech pathologist kept coming to his school to work on language and social skills, then at home he learned to read. When he started Kindergarten having that foundation in reading was so helpful. He struggled with everything else but having that one skill gave him confidence.

Very much agree. Children's and KKI are such great, local resources too.

In our case, a developmental pediatrician was helpful to find that it wasn't a receptive delay, it was ADHD in our 4 year old.