Prietto Speech Therapy

You’ve had a speech and language evaluation. Now what?

Optimally, your speech language therapy wrote up results from the evaluation into a report and mailed it to you. It is helpful to keep a record of reports to measure progress and provide to specialists over the next years. Often times, a report is valid for 6 months, but if you delay therapy after that, it would be best to have a new evaluation. Reports can be shared with your child’s pediatrician, teachers, and/or any other specialists who work with your child.

Details of the report should include:

1. Identifying information: Name, caregivers age, age at time of report, date of evaluation, date of report
2. Reason for evaluation including parent concerns
3. Child’s background medical, developmental and intervention history
4. Standardized test descriptions and data
5. Detailed information about speech and language skills, observed informally and tested formally.
6. Results including diagnosis, if applicable
7. Recommendations including referrals if needed, treatment plan including specific goals and timeline

Reports should be parent-friendly, that is, free of jargon (vocabulary specific to speech & language that the general public may not know), and have examples for speech and language concepts and errors the child is making.

As always, if you have questions about the report, ASK the speech therapist. Often times, we may be in the habit of writing a certain way, and can easily explain it another way so everyone understands. This written report is a snapshot of how your child performed on a given day, and hopefully an accurate measure of their current skills. It provides a treatment plan (if needed) and an opportunity for you to see where your child is and where they are going next.