Feb 23, 2010

We had our long-awaited appointment with a Speech Pathologist at Markham Stouffville Hospital this morning. It’s a good opportunity to go over our concerns with the Speech Pathologist together with her performing an assessment with Adrian during our 1.5 hours visit there. The SP had Adrian look at pictures from each page in the binder and asked all type of questions ranging beginning from easy to difficult. Adrian got impatient half way through the assessment (i.e. so he didn't get to finish the first half!) and the SP quickly switched to the second part where Adrian was asked to mimic the sound/word that she produced. While the assessments were mostly done in English, Mama was asked to chip in and translate the instructions to Cantonese when Adrian had problems understanding the terms in English. As expected, the result confirms Adrian’s delay in speech, however, not as severe as we’d thought (still within a year). In addition, Adrian also has some problems with articulation (Making certain sounds e.g. Final consonant deletion, stopping, cluster reduction & gliding). The SP is unsure if the problem with articulation was attributed to his partial hearing loss. She recommends therapy sessions with Adrian but treatment will depend upon the results of his hearing test/ABR Test (previous hearing tests were deemed not 100% reliable) in the coming months (Mar/Apr 2010).

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