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OP - It is hard to compare any two children in terms of what testing might show at any age, but especially a young age as "official" evaluation scores for identification of an intellectual disability or cognitive disability are not accepted until age 6 as far as an official designation of a disability to qualify for later services.  Also you can't compare the outcomes because there can be so many variables in terms of background of the person doing the testing, testing conditions, general focus of the child, adaptability of the young child to even working with a stranger or in a new setting etc.

I know you are looking for a definitive positive answer, but you just can't get it all that easily.  The most important thing is to continue to surround your DC with language and lots of just general kid experiences.  Read aloud each day, in play activities use words to teach DC to do things in terms of following simple directions, give DC opportunities to be around other children a bit older with more language as this may give DC a reason to use what he/she knows.  Our middle daughter who is a pediatric PT used Signing Times videos with hter now 5 and 3 year old, and especially with the older girl, it really helped in language development.  Signs were dropped as words came or used interchangeably for a time.

Our daughter has an ID,  but the main thing I wanted to know is would she be able to talk and read, and she could read this post and understand it.  Her verbal scores were always higher, but not in what would be called the normal range because of the higher order of thinking skills.  At a young age, scores can be closer together because the gap with typical young children is not that wide.  Again, do not over focus on testing results.  Also to be clear it took time for her language to come as we started   speech at 3 as she hadd over 200 words   but would not chain as in "Hi Mama."  Speech sessions started this quickly.[/quote]

I do really appreciate your response and perspective. Thank you. I'm guessing if she wasn't joining words together at 3 that she had a language delay. I was really wondering if it would be possible to test by an slp on a comprehensive test like the celf-p in average range and have a significant ID and I get that nobody can answer that, which is fine. Really just wondering if I could think of the scores as reassuring. Thanks for taking the time to respond. [/quote]

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