severe speech problems

[aquafunf]

I hope you don't mind me posting here. Someone hopefully might be able to help. DD3 shortly turns 4. She has finally seen a speech therapist who described her speech as having many problems, the least of which is a stammer ( she also cant do a lot of sounds and confuses them). The speech therapist has suggested not moving her to school until she has to go ( i had already thought this myself). She goes to her lovely nursery 2.5 days a week and loves it.
Anyhow, now is the time i have to go and look at local schools and i haven't a clue about what to ask. My main concerns are that if her speech is still similar, she will not answer in class/be asked to contribute by the teacher, and she might well be socially excluded by other children. She is pretty oblivious to all of this at the moment.
Is there anything i should specifically ask?
Many thanks

aqua - have you thought about applying for a statement so that she can have a 1-1 just to give her that extra support when she starts school? (she may only need it for her first year or two).

Bear in mind that around 1 in 10 kids have some sort of speech and language problem, so although you feel very isolated as mum to a pre-schooler with this some of issue, schools should be reasonably used to dealing with this, particularly if your DD's understanding of language is fine. In terms of questions - I would ask about what support they would usually give to a child with speech difficulties, whether they often had children with speech problems in the school, and about how speech therapy would continue in school. also worth asking whether they would give extra support with phonics/literacy (sometimes children with problems making sounds have problems distinguishing sounds). IME the teachers at my DS's school were pretty good with language problems, and at reception age the kids were very accepting of difference, I found it was more around age 7 that we went through a more difficult phase.

yy. all of our schools have had continuing slt, and dd2 has continued to access slt groups for specific things outside of school. she had ft 1-1 in yr r mostly for communication (although she did have some physical needs).

why do you think she wouldn't be asked to contribute by the teacher? if she is getting on okay in nursery, there is no real reason why school should be any different, as long as it is the right setting. go and visit a few and ask lots of questions. does she get socially excluded at nursery? (i assume not) it wouldn't be any different at school - as others have said, it's at 7 or 8 that difference becomes a bigger deal.

Thank you for all your help and the different perspectives on this problem. You are right in that being the mum of a preschooler it does seem a huge problem. There is some family experience of a severe stammer and his experiences of school are probably feeding into my concerns about DD3.
I will follow the action suggested and go to see the 3 schools nearest.
Many thanks

think outside the box a little - it may be that "naice" uber high achieving sats school isn't the best place for kids with SN, and a less good school on paper might be more suitable. worth reading the section of the ofsted report that says average level of attainment for kids at entry, and then end of foundation, and how the school supports kids with SN, and whethere they have many kids with SN - ofsted usually says IIRC if there are average, below or above average nos of kids with SN