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[quote=Anonymous]OP -

If you have the resources, I would highly recommend a private eval and going to a private speech therapist.  Early intervention is key.

The public school system will take 9 months to even identify your child (an IEP screening meeting, then an evaluation meeting, then right the damn document).  Until the IEP is written, your child cannot receive speech services.  That will put you at about March.  Then realize by June, the speech services will end only to resume the following September.  Services are also offered in group settings so your child will be lumped into therapy sessions with other students.

Privately, you can make an appointment within the next month, have your child evaluated and given a plan for treatment.  In most cases, your child receives one on one services and attention during therapy.  Your child will progress faster and probably do better than waiting on the public system to fix the issue.

Option 3 would be to start private speech therapy while you wait for the school system to catch up and have their meetings.  That way you can collect data and speech assessments for the school meetings and your child isn't waiting for services.[/quote]

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