Tag: Providence Speech and Hearing tetst

Occupational Therapy Evaluation

Posted on by MICHELLE N

Recommended by William’s speech therapist, we scheduled for an OT evaluation from the same place, Providence Hearing and Speech center.

I took a day off to take William there, but first we stopped by at Dunkin Donuts: William loves chocolate donut.

The whole evaluation session lasted about 30 minutes; they asked me to fill out some questions: make a check mark next to the item that William can do or a cross mark if William cannot do. While I’m working on that, the lady worked with William: asked him to cut a circle, trace and color shapes and some other activities. And she took notes while doing so.

At the end, she recommended that we should have 1 hour / week for OT. Give it about 2 weeks for her to complete the report and then we should call in to schedule the sessions.

She asked what’s our concerns are. It’s that William is almost 6 years old but he still cannot button/un-button shirts/pants or tie his shoe laces. His skill of using utensils is very poor: he changes to left or right hand very often; it looks as if his fingers/hands get tired easily.

Questionare I need to fill out
The OT Evaluator

Speech Evaluation

Posted on by MICHELLE N

I got an approval letter from Cal-optima regarding William’s doctor request for speech evaluation; which surprised me because I thought the doctor office should send the approval request few weeks back when they requested for hearing test.  So I called Magnolia Medical group, where William’s doctor is (Dr. Huy / YenChi) ; it turned out that last time they only requested for HEARING test; which means I need to make another appointment with Providence Speech and Hearing center for William to have a SPEECH evaluation.

So I called Providence, the next available appointment is Thursday Oct 26, which is 1 month away!  Looks like it’s the average appointment time with Providence because last time it also took about a month to have hearing test appointment too.

This time I chose the location in Fountain Valley (17075 Bushard, Fountain Valley, CA 92602).  Last time I didn’t know they have a location in FV so we went to Orange location).

I wish the doctor’s office ordered both hearing and speech test last time so that we don’t have to wait another month for speech evaluation; then wait about 2 weeks for the report to ready;  until then the doctor office can initiate speech therapy request to Cal-Optima for my 3 year old son.  This process is just taking too long.