Sentences with phrase «referral for a speech»

Age 2 is not too young for a referral for a speech / language evaluation, particularly if a child is not following directions, answering simple questions, or saying enough words.

you could ask your pediatrician for a referral for speech or occupational therapy if it continues.

Not exact matches

If so, ask your pediatrician for a referral to have him tested by a speech therapist.

After completing the speech and language evaluation, families are provided with specific recommendations, which may include speech or language therapy, educational placement, and referrals for related services, such as occupational or behavioral therapy.

If you're worried about a particular issue — your child's speech or ability to grab objects, for instance — and the doctor doesn't mention anything, bring it up and ask for a referral to a specialist.

If he seems obsessive about it or like he's sucking really strongly, you might want to get a referral to a pediatric speech therapist, but if it's just normal comfort sucking, it'll work itself out as he gets better at regulating his own emotions and asking for comfort when he needs it, and needing comfort less.

As in most cases, our general practitioner expressed some mild concern but continued with the wait - and - see approach until she was almost two and her expressive speech was less than five words, at which point we received a referral to public health for a speech assessment.

Concern over low test scores often leads to misguided recommendations for educational segregation of multilingual children, and can prompt excessive referral of multilingual children to speech - language pathology clinics, she said.

I would be making a doctor's appointment as soon as possible with the GP and ask for a referral to CAMHS and if you can persuade the GP, to the Paediatrician and if you can get it to a speech and language assessment.