Our fabulous private SLP provides us with quarterly speech reports. Here's an excerpt:
Current Goals
- Increased discrimination of words through listening alone that differ in only one feature of the initial or final consonant
- Three part auditory memory tasks
- Use of age-appropriate grammatical markers
- Monitor distance listening abilities
Progress
Lily continues to make nice gains. We've worked this quarter on Lily's ability to listen and understand recorded messages. This is a listening challenge that Lily has enjoyed as it's involved listening and following directions to different songs and recorded stimuli.
In addition we've worked on Lily ability to discriminate words that differ in only one feature in larger set sizes. At last date collection, Lily was able to discriminate between words differing in only one feature of the initial or final consonant in sets of 4 with 80% accuracy.
We also assessed her distance listening. Lily was making some auditory confusion between /m/ and "oo" at distances between 3 and 15 feet, as well as a no response to /s/ at 30 feet. Ideally she would be able to identify all Ling sounds at a distance of 45 feet. Due in part to testing, Lily's parents took her to have her map adjusted. At the next testing, she was consistent on all Ling sounds between 0 and 35 ft.
Lily's expressive language continues to develop nicely. She is using her contactable "to be" verbs, past tense and irregular past tense with greater frequency and with a high level of accuracy. We will continue this quarter focusing on her expressive/receptive language, auditory comprehension and will add a peripheral focus on her speech articulation.
Lily is approximately 90% intelligible to a familiar listener but does demonstrate some sound substitutions that are developmentally appropriate for her age including /t/ for /k/ and /d/ for /g/. We'll begin putting an emphasis on these sounds to give her greater exposure to hearing them as well as opportunities to practice them.
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