Speech Evaluation

Carson has a speech delay and we've had some folks look at him, though I've felt that he will do it in his own time, but it was getting late and what if I was wrong? So, we've seen two other folk and today was number three. The first seemed competent, the second did not, our speech person from the first strikes me as only adequate. Well today, WOW, such competency and excellence. I was impressed, so impressed I complimented the receptionist before we even came in. So nice to have someone happy to do their job and do it well. The evaluator was awesome and didn't miss a trick. he was completely aware when Carson was tricking her and not answering questions because that was part of his game.

For some reason, Carson would not answer colors correctly. She laid out six blocks. She asked him to point to a certain colored one and Carson pointed to the first one. Then she asked another color and Carson pointed to the second one, and then he did the same for the third and fourth. The fifth was red so she asked, "Which block is red?" So what did Carson do? He skipped the fifth red one and pointed to number six and then the next color back tracked to red. So he deliberately answered the colors wrong, for what reason, who knows.

So I'm nervous about how he'll test out, he was getting tired. But for expressive and receptive communication, Carson scored 3 years and 3 months! Carson is just 2 years and 9 months. And then, the speech test. Carson squeaked by into the NORMAL range!!! I've never been so happy to hear my child is NORMAL!! and does NOT qualify! Whoo-hoo! Doing a happy dance here!