I think it has been a puzzling situation to have these two areas in LD when they are traditionally served through speech-language. I was just wondering if any of you special educators label kids LD in LC and OE. We really don’t here. But my own child probably would qualify in those areas in addition to LD reading comprehension. I’m just trying to think whether there would be any advantage whatsoever in doing so.
Janis
Re: LD Listening Comprehension and Oral Expression
Hi, Patti,
She has been speech-language impaired the last couple of years. I’m not sure there would be anything to gain by an LD listening comp or oral expression label due to the fact that LD teachers for the most part woudn’t know what to do about it. (No offense to the good teachers on LD Online, of course!). They did not even give her all the WJ-III LC and OE subtests anyway, so I would have to request it if I really wanted the classification. At this point I am leaning toward not worrying about it.
Janis
One impacts the other….she would be diagnosed with a Speech and Language impairment based on any receptive or expressive language deficit. The listening comprehension can be influenced by auditory processing, attention, vocabulary knowledge. The Oral Expression can be impaced by all of these areas as well. She needs to understand auditory/receptive language before she can express herself. If she has problems with attending to auditory information in addition to this being her 2nd language….can impact any scores she receives on tests measuring receptive and expressive language.