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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do a formal request for an evaluation from your teacher and the speech therapist at your school. Cc vice principal. They will do some testing and determine if you qualify for services and then they will do the pullout time for your kid. It's usually not enough but something. They have a lot of kids to take care of and not enough resources to go around. Some private therapists will come to school as well. My kid needed help (expressive only and not articulating). She just couldn't get all her thoughts out legibly and got stuck. We did it qualify for services in school but did private once a week at home for 4 months and it was worth every penny and she's much better now. [/quote]

This. Even so it takes time. We made the request before kindergarten started, and again two weeks in, and DC did not get evaluated until November and services didn't start until January of her kindergarten year. There is one SLP for the entire elementary school which is 600+ kids.  She has made progress but not enough and the more progress she makes, the more they cut. And there is zero educational impact so they are going to phase it out soon. They told us point-blank that their standard is whether there is an educational impact, not whether she ever learns to talk completely normally. Knowing that, we started weekly private SLP the summer after 2nd grade. [/quote]

NP. That's the standard in IDEA. Free school speech therapy is not to maximize a child's potential and give them perfect speech. It's to address educational impact and access to the curriculum. It is a bare bones public system that is stretched to the max. The school SLPs are usually carrying caseloads of 65-80 kids. For many artic issues, going the private route is almost always better. [/quote]

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