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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How old exactly was your child when administered the CELF? I think the CELF is by 6 month age ranges so one age range is 4 years, 0 months, 0 days to 4 years, 5 months, 30 days. And the next cut off is 4years 6 months, 0 days to 4 years, 11 months, and 30 days. So if your child was 4 years, 5 months I would be more concerned because many of of the normative sample were younger. If your child was 4 years 6 months I would be less concerned. [/quote]

OP here: 4 years and 7 months.[/quote]
I would pay for speech/language therapy. My son scored around the same at that age- not low enough to get special ed services from school district but lower than would be expected coming from two parents with high education levels. His issues stemmed from lingering fluid in his ears that required 3 sets of ear tubes. If I were you I would:
1) get your child's hearing tested by an audiologist, not just the pediatrician's office.
2) I bought and used a kindergarten vocabulary program called Wordly Wise. There are workbooks for older kids but the kinder and first grade programs have small posters, picture flash cards and a colorful workbook. You concentrate on around 10 words in a lesson. You read a story and talk about the words, your kid finds the words in the workbook and/or circles/cut and pastes. The words are taken from some of the most common elementary level books. It cost around 100 dollars for the kinder program. We did it about three times a week and it was good for me to get into the habit if emphasizing certain words. My son enjoyed the program. Here is a link to a list of words- kinder words are on the first page. 
http://www.nestlearning.com/files/PDF/ww3k_word_list-level.pdf
I also like that some words had multiple meanings and the taught that "wave" could be related to the ocean or waving goodbye. Same thing with "row"- vegetables in a garden in a row or row a boat. Other words were dew, insects, tangled, destroyed, hoof, creep, cushion, brave, captured, leak, glance, and include.
Here is a link to a k sample lesson:
http://eps.schoolspecialty.com/EPS/media/Site-Resources/Downloads/samples/2818M/ww3k_bookK_unit1_lesson2.pdf?ext=.pdf
Here is a first grade one:

http://eps.schoolspecialty.com/EPS/media/Site-Resources/Downloads/samples/2818M/ww3k_book1_unit1_lesson3.pdf?ext=.pdf[/quote]

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