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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thanks again for the thoughtful posts and useful input. I appreciate the suggestion to follow up with an audiologist. (DD did fail the test at a lower frequency for one of her years.)[/quote]

I would really make an appt. ASAP. My son's articulation was off and he had similar language scores and we never realized he couldn't hear well. Luckily it was correctable with ear tube surgery. Google how to read an audiogram and look at the audiogram of familiar sounds. 
Here is one example:
https://www.google.com/search?q=audiogram+of+familiar+sounds&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari#imgrc=d2GBumAYAUKWgM%3A

His audiologist explained that kids really should hear at 15 decibels or better but pediatricians and schools often set their passing standards to 25 decibels. Whispering is at around 20 decibels.  Once my son got ear tubes his speech and language skyrocketed. We also did the Wordly Wise program and read aloud a lot to him. He is now in 3rd grade and has a really good vocabulary. We notice that every once in a while he mispronounces a word and we think it is because he learned it when he was three and not hearing well. One ear still isn't as good as the other (pass at 25 decibels) so his audiologist wrote a note for him to be seated with better ear toward teacher and away from loud ambient noise like an air conditioning unit. [/quote]

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