New Member Hopeful for Advice

[Guest guest]

I came across this site a few days ago and am hoping to get some

advice or suggestions for our situation.

We adopted our daughter from China in September of 2005. She turned

two in October and has not progressed much with her speech. From

the research and information that I have been reading she should be

caught up to other children her age if she has been home for a

year. She has been home for over a year and just doesn't have much

of a vocabulary. I also recently found out that she is mild to

moderately tongue tied which our doctor said was not affecting her

speech. We have tried to get her into speech but found out our

insurance wouldn't cover it if it was a developmental delay. Our

doctor suggested that we get her evaluated through the public school

system. We did that and she didn't qualify. She did everything the

speech therapist asked her to do without any problem except for

verbalizing. It is very frustrating because most of the time she

won't even try to imitate what we say. She whines and crys a lot

and gets frustrated when we try to make her speak. I've been

reading a lot of books and looking for suggestions on the internet.

I try to implement as much of that as I can but am not getting a lot

of results. Any suggestions or advice would be great.

Thanks!

in Lincoln, NE

[Guest guest]

If your daughter completed all of the receptive language tasks but had

difficulty with expressive language tasks and speaks only a few words at 26

months she should have qualified for speech therapy in the public schools based

on her expressive deficits. She would need a Standard Score of 77 or below in

the area expressive language she should qualify. The Standard Score of 77

usually qualifies in most states. Did she have a receptive-expressive gap in

that there was a big gap between receptive and expressive language skills. Does

she exhibit any clinical indicators of childhood apraxia of speech? Read the

book the Late Talker, and get a private speech and language evaluation from a

therapist who is familiar with apraxia. Check with the local university's speech

and language department. They are usually less expensive than private

therapists. Do a google search on the speech and language development

internationally adopted children. Pollack, SLP has done a lot of work

with children adopted from China.Good Luck.

MW,SLP

Guy & <huskerfire12345@...> wrote:

I came across this site a few days ago and am hoping to get some

advice or suggestions for our situation.

We adopted our daughter from China in September of 2005. She turned

two in October and has not progressed much with her speech. From

the research and information that I have been reading she should be

caught up to other children her age if she has been home for a

year. She has been home for over a year and just doesn't have much

of a vocabulary. I also recently found out that she is mild to

moderately tongue tied which our doctor said was not affecting her

speech. We have tried to get her into speech but found out our

insurance wouldn't cover it if it was a developmental delay. Our

doctor suggested that we get her evaluated through the public school

system. We did that and she didn't qualify. She did everything the

speech therapist asked her to do without any problem except for

verbalizing. It is very frustrating because most of the time she

won't even try to imitate what we say. She whines and crys a lot

and gets frustrated when we try to make her speak. I've been

reading a lot of books and looking for suggestions on the internet.

I try to implement as much of that as I can but am not getting a lot

of results. Any suggestions or advice would be great.

Thanks!

in Lincoln, NE

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