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[quote=Anonymous]We had DC2 evaluated for speech in a surrounding county (not DC) and it didn't go well.

Just for reference, my DC1 went through the entire speech program pre-covid- had an in person evaluation that I thought was much more thorough as they were able to interact with DC1 themselves. We loved the speech therapist who came. Even though the therapist did teach me tricks, she was very engaging with DC1 herself and DC1 loved her- maybe I just got lucky.

Now I had put off referring DC2 for speech knowing that it was online and thinking DC2 would not do well the way DC1 had with everything in person, even though DC2 is much more friendly/less stranger anxiety in general than DC1 was at the same age. But I tried to be open minded. DC2 had just started with a few words between the intake assessment and later developmental assessment. At the developmental assessment, I felt like they really weren't able to get an accurate picture of DC2 over the computer screen, like nuances got missed... plus DC2 was either distracted with the screen or wouldn't perform or a few times DC2 did say a word or two but so soft the evaluators didn't hear DC2. DC2 ended up marked much lower than DC2 should have IMO- like I'm not sure how much they believed me when I stated DC2 had words. But then they didn't even offer an actual speech therapist but an "educator" where they basically just wanted to teach me how to play with my child. Luckily DC2 added several more words right after the developmental assessment and seems to be continuing to catching up quickly (adding probably 3-5 words a week now), so we ended up declining services. I don't know what I would do if my child had a severe delay.
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