Ming from Agents of Speech walks through what happens during a speech therapy assessment. Clinicians use prognosis to predict progress (rated good, fair, or not looking good) and severity scales from mild to profound to grade the condition.
Let's talk about speech therapy. After the assessment, they're going to tell you the intensity and the severity of your child's diagnosis. We're going to say, oh, look, we're going to give you a prognosis. Prognosis just means basically how well on a, on a professional standpoint how this case is going to go. And don't mind me using these words because I'm not trying to be inhumane. I'm just using the words that a professional would use in this particular time, this case or client. Their prognosis means how well will they fare with time. That's what we're thinking. How well is the therapy going to treat? Prognosis is going to be either good, fair or not looking good. Other than that, we have a diagnosis which is it goes from mild to moderate and then the moderate to severe, severe and then profound going through all these. And this should go across all types of therapy diagnosis, including occupational and physiotherapy because I also read the reports for that, so I know they kind of use the same scales and.
