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From: Martha Reidel, Educ. speech/language clincian
Date: 10/20/03
Time: 1:14:09 PM
Remote Name: 204.72.14.34
Requesting professional insight and recommendations re: female 3rd grade (9-10 yrs.) student adopted from China 5 mos. ago. Limited English: 2-4 word expression emerging , i.e. "We have cat". Appears to have WNL receptive language understanding. Parent is very concerned about speech disfluencies. She exibits some whole word and initial consonant sound repetitions with no secondary characteristics or frustration speaking. The parent says that Chinese-speaking friends have observed that she is disfluent in Chinese; and does not have a strong Chinese language base when compared to her sibling. Mom is insisting on an fluency evlauation. She currently receives ESL services and participates in a weekly social skills group. Should a fluency assessment be done at this time or should more time be allowed for her to acquire more language in English? If she is evaluated; should it be done with a Chinese interpreter? How would therapy look with limited English and would it be productive at this time? Thank you for your professional imput. Martha Reidel-Wayzata Public Schools