Help - Not Making Progress

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I need help trying to figure out what to do. I've been very patient

with for this past year.

In the past, has always made little progress for months and

then she has a giant leap in her speech. Usually, the giant leap

happened during the summer. Well, I noted the little progress, but

I just decided to wait until after summer to see if she would have

another leap.

She hasn't, so now I have to go on the offense, and I don't know

what to do.

She's getting speech at school 3 times a week and OT once a week.

She's getting private speech 1/week.

I changed private speech therapist, and I've noticed a little

improvement since we started seeing her.

The big problem that I see is that she has made great strides in her

reading this summer. She is now ready for harder books, except she

cannot say the words. She loves the " Amelia Bedelia " books, but she

cannot say the main character " Amelia Bedelia " name. She finally

just says " blah blah blah " whenever she reads " Amelia Bedelia " .

When she was reading the books, she couldn't say " furniture "

and " exclaimed " and some other words. I would read the words to

her, and she had a hard time trying to say the words slowly after me.

I don't know what to do. I don't know what to ask for. She is very

smart and she is academically ready for reading harder books and

writing more things, but the speech is definitely getting in the

way.

She's been very frustrated, and so am I.