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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you PP for all your help!! You've truly given me a lot to think about and opened up a whole new avenue of potential help for my DD. I read through all her reports with a new eye toward speech issues and I was shocked at how much was there once I was looking for it! Many, many pragmatic issues throughout the evaluations and some dysfluency concerns as well.

We had the IEP meeting today and in many ways it was just a formality. We walked through the criteria for OHI and ED. They found her eligible for special education in both categories. The school psychologist felt strongly about making the ED primary, and after consulting with DD's therapist (who used to be a school psychologist in FCPS) I was OK with that. There was really no discussion or argument that she might not need services. They seem eager to give her support for the executive function and ADD issues as well as the anxiety, so I was pleased with that.

We meet in 2 weeks to discuss goals. The school SLP said she wants to be at that meeting and she wants to add speech goals and services even though she was not identified under speech, so I feel pretty good about that. The summer will be a good time for us to explore various avenues for further speech evaluation and services.

Thank you again. I appreciate you taking the time to read through my novels :) and helping us out![/quote]

I'm glad to hear your school is being cooperative and that the speech therapist thinks she has a contribution to the situation.  And, it's good that you are getting this in place now, so it will be ready to go at the beginning of the next school year.

IMO, pragmatic speech issues are difficult because pragmatic speech is something that we process without really even thinking about it.  Speech/language pathologists can be good about uncovering the pragmatic difficulties and explicitly teaching what pragmatic language behavior should be taking place.  But, IME, in the classroom, teachers often totally miss the existence and impact of pragmatic difficulties.  Peers are often the same -- they recognize and react to odd disjunctures between a message's spoken and pragmatic aspects, but don't know what is really going on (i.e. the underlying speech/language dysfunction).   Pragmatic speech difficulties can be a tough kind of "hidden" difficulty to cope with.  Which isn't to say it won't get better, just that dealing with it is not as obvious and straight forward as say, a reading or spelling difficulty.

Good luck![/quote]

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