Esme School Update

Esme continues to enjoy school and will be embarking on a new aspect of it.  We have has some concerns about her speech for a while.  We tried to get her evaluated with our district's early childhood program just before things shutdown in the spring, but she was not very cooperative.  In discussions, we determined that it could probably wait until she started preschool in the fall.  Sure enough, just a couple weeks in to this year I received a call from her teacher to discuss her speech.  She had gained a lot of new words and other skills in the 6 months since she was last seen, but there were still obvious concerns about her articulation.  We scheduled another evaluation and crossed our fingers for a better appointment.

She did amazing!  We got through all of the exercises she needed to complete. She took a couple of play breaks, but observations can be made in those as well.  Then it was time to wait for the official report.  We were initially told that her comprehension seemed good, but the articulation needed work. Then we waited for the final report.

About a week later we were informed she did indeed qualify for speech under articulation.  We set up an initial IEP meeting (virtual) and I was able to meet the speech pathologist she would be working with.  They had their first virtual meeting today and it went pretty well.  I am excited to see how her speech evolves.  There are a couple videos below that you can watch to hear some of the pronunciation errors she is making.