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"The Allen children are a wonderful success story," said Kathryn Wilson, a speech-language pathologist and auditory verbal therapist in Chapel Hill, N.C., who treated Stacy and Anthony Allen’s three school-age children.
The youngsters, 9-year-old Bethany, 8-year-old Evan, and 6-year-old Leighton, are fully mainstreamed in their local elementary school in Wake Forest, N.C. They all have Individualized Education Programs.
Wilson has worked for several years with the Allen family, who are moving soon to Missouri. At the present time, school services are mostly consultative for Bethany and Evan, with about an hour or two weekly for pre-teaching new vocabulary. Wilson said by e-mail that after the family moves, she doubts the two older children will need even this level of service, as their scores on all language assessments are good.
"At age 3, they were scoring within the average range on every measure I used," she said.
The youngest son, Leighton, was diagnosed with apraxia and dysarthria when he was about 2. He receives support both at school and privately, but Wilson expects that he will need only another year of treatment.
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