{"id":20812,"date":"2019-10-14T10:10:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T14:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=20812"},"modified":"2019-10-15T11:41:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T15:41:48","slug":"esl-ell-adopted-child-4yrs-old-speech-therapy-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/esl-ell-adopted-child-4yrs-old-speech-therapy-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"ESL \/ ELL: ADOPTED CHILD 4 YRS OLD,  SPEECH THERAPY ASSESSMENT?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"ESL%20%2F%20ELL%3A%20ADOPTED%20CHILD%204%20YRS%20OLD%2C%20%20SPEECH%20THERAPY%20ASSESSMENT%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Elizabeth:  (WA State) Our daughter adopted from China was tested originally by the Birth to Three folks when she first came home and they were unable to test her Speech (it is &#8220;culturally loaded&#8221; test, they did not have anyone who spoke her dialect to test her).<br \/>\nFast forward 15 months, she is now over three and qualifies for school district services, the school district tests her and they say because she is making all the sounds a 15 month old does she is fine.<br \/>\nIs this right?<\/p>\n<p>If it is how long are we supposed to wait to test again? She is very hard to understand. When I compare her speech to my friends children of the same age that came home at roughly the same time, I can see she is behind.<\/p>\n<p>She does get PT with the school district.<\/p>\n<p>She has a severe heart issue and has problems with swallowing after her heart surgery. While still in china she was almost constantly in the hospital, her palate is tented from being intubated for so long.<\/p>\n<p>I am new to this, and need to know if this is just the run around.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth: (WA State) Our daughter adopted from China was tested originally by the Birth to Three folks when she first came home and they were unable to test her Speech <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/esl-ell-adopted-child-4yrs-old-speech-therapy-assessment\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1342],"tags":[1348],"class_list":["post-20812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-question","tag-e"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23826,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20812\/revisions\/23826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}