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[quote=Anonymous]In answer to the OP's original question, I think a parent needs to be relative well educated to pick up on when their child is having issues, and figure out, "HEY, something is not right here."  I really do think an educated mother can make a huge difference in a child's life.  A less educated mother may not pick up on something which is not normal or on target.  For example, even though my daughter was in speech therapy, and was learning how to say specific sounds, I kept having the feeling that she then had NO IDEA where to PUT THEM in her words. IE She had very low phonological awareness.  When I raised that with the SLP, they did some simple testing along those lines, and said basically, 'Yep, her phonological awareness is way behind so let's increase our working on that particular skill for a while" and her awareness improved (assuaging my worries that she had dyslexia, which is often marked by low phonological awareness in the pre-reading years, but she improved so rapidly, that it seemed she was merely delayed, but not intrinsically "disabled" in this area.

Similarly, after that got cleared up, and she continued to work on speech, I said something to the SLP, "You know, her enunciation has gotten a lot clearer, but I am still concerned about her continued grammatical and syntax errors.  Is this normal?  OR does she does this more than she should at this age?"  So, SLP did some testing along those lines and, guess what, DD's understanding of sentence structure was in the toilet, but her understanding of word structure and expressive vocabulary were normal.  So, we are now working on sentence structure.

So, really, my point is:  an educated mother (or father, but often times, mother) can make a load of difference in recognizing if and when a child's development may be off target, and therefore be the first line of "defense" in catching something and pushing for further investigation.  [/quote]

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