my husband and i got the test results on our dd today. basically, the test results showed adhd, no surprise...but that the med she's on is definitely helping her process information adequately. i was expecting a diagnosis of non-verbal learning disorder, which we didn't get...but we did get the diagnosis of expressive language disorder, which does make sense. a recommendation to get her started with speech and language services was given to us. for starters i believe i will meet with the middle school social worker the first week of school and take it from there. school won't be an easy road ahead, but at least it's good to hear that we are not dealing with any anxiety, depression, etc...at this point in our dd's life, she is happy with herself...she is a happy girl. we have some teaching to do along the way and work with her impusivity/social skills too...but we need to go day by day!
is anyone else dealing with expressive language disorder? just curious.
shelley
My son was diagnosed with that at age 2. I was told his cognitive skill level was 9 months behind. We went into speech therapy and he started talking 6 months later. My son had stopped using more than 3 words when he was 18 monhts. If he started using a new word, he would drop another, keeping his active vocabulary at 3 words. We taught him 2 signs to help with communicating, he stopped verbalizing completely and developed about 10-15 new signs to communicate with us. This all happened over a 2 week period. We stopped the signing and I asked the speech therapist not to sign with him. The speech therapist had never heard of that happening, and continued to sign with him. Then he just started talking and in 2 weeks he added 30 words to his active vocabulary. (He has not stopped talking since then.) By the age of 3 he was declared one month behind on his cognitive skills.
I always thought my son was just stubborn and didn't want to talk. He was the type of child that wanted to do everything by himself. He did not want you to do it for him.
my dd just can be quiet when intimidated with peers her age, often times she'll just watch and observe-not quite sure what to say we are thinking. she talks and talks otherwise. but, when tested she wasn't able to verbalize definition of words like other kids her age, etc. she wasn't able to verbalize to the tester in a few tests...getting her point across and this is probably why she has such a hard time writing essays, etc. that part of her homework has always been a struggle for her, it didn't seem like she knew where to begin when trying it independently...and now we know why.
shelley
shellyA- good point . my son cannot verbalize to write papers or come up with new ideas. he has gotten all a's and b's on his last report card, but with some help from the teacher, she was really helping him. I worry about next year and the teacher. we did up his vyvance from 30-50mg and we are hoping it would help with the hyperness which it has, and focus which I can't tell very much yet it has only been 1 week. he also has an laguage disorder that did not get me an IEP but a 504 instead. he has many accomodations.Shelly
Does your daughter have any problems with the physical act of writing? Our testing results showed that my son has problem with the physical act and would qualify for accomendations (use of a laptop) in public school. We homeschool and had discovered that my son would write a 2 page response to a movie, where before he would have hand written two short sentences. I think my son tested lower on his testing because the made him handwrite his responses.
My theory is that his hands can not keep up and that just frustrates him to the point where he just gives up. We let him do all writing on the laptop but still make him practice his handwriting as a seperate subject.