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Re: Assessment results of 3 year old

Posted by KatieSLP on June 6, 2009, 7:58 pm, in reply to "Assessment results of 3 year old"
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I do about 2 to 3 evaluations for preschoolers per week and I'll tell you what i tell parents following an evaluation. The SS of 87 means that she is within the low average range of performance (compared to other children her age and gender). The 29 means that out of 100 children she has speech sound production skills BETTER than 29% of the children. Children who are 3 years or older should not be stopping, reducing clusters, or demonstrate assimiliation.
Two important things to remember at her age:
1)At 3 years of age a child should be 75 to 89% intelligible in conversation (all of her sounds may not be perfect but you will understand this much)
2)at her age should be able to say: p, m, w with k, g, t, d, ng (as in ring), f, y emerging.
In terms of how common: it is pretty common for children of her age to have difficulty; however, it is not okay for her to avoid talking or to become overly frustrated when communicating. If this happens this is not normal or helpful for your daughter.
Also, I wouldn't worry about sounds like: l, s, r, ch, sh, j....these are all hard sounds and considered later-developing.
What bothers me is that her evaluation report DID NOT include this information. It seems unfair to read scores and not know what they mean.
One other thought: take the age-equivalency with a grain of salt. SLP's do not often use this as it does not provide much in the way of meaningful information.

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