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Assessment results of 3 year old

Posted by pbjoseph1 on June 5, 2009, 10:09 pm
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I just got the results of my daughters speech eval in the mail today and am wondering if someone can tell me if they are really bad. She was 3 years 1 month old and had a GFTA-2 test. It says her standard score was 87 (normal 85-115) with a percentile rank of 29 and age equivalency of 2 years 7 months old. She also listed problems such as stopping(houd for house), cluster reduction(poon for spoon), stridency deletion(tovel for shovel), assimilation(guck for duck), cluster substitution(pwane for plane), liquid gliding(wamp for lamp) and coalescence(fimming for swimming).

I didn't realize all of the errors that she was making in her speech and I thought some of it was even normal for her age, but I guess I was wrong. Now I am pretty worried.

Can someone explain these results? What does the 87 and 29 stand for? How common is it to have so many errors in one child's speech?

Thanks

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