We have been in the Early Childhood Intervention Program here in Texas for a year now, so we had our annual evaluation today. It was mostly a whole lot of questions about what he can and cannot do, but then they score him in several areas based on the answers. I found out he can do a whole lot I didn't know he could do, and he isn't as far behind as I thought.
The five areas are: cognitive, communication, social-emotional, physical, and adaptive. They "score" him by giving him an estimated age for each of the areas. In cognitive, he is 9 months; communications-8 months; social-emotional- 10 months; physical- 6 months (duh!); and adaptive- 14 months!! Wow! He is actually ahead of the curve for that.
Overall, they were very impressed, which really buoyed my spirits because I have been so focusing on the physical delays that I missed how well he is doing is other areas. When it's not a problem, it gets ignored I guess. They think he is doing well in the cognitive area, and he really is. He knows when he is doing something wrong, and when we are pleased with him. (He cries at the drop of a hat!) And he definitely has the mommy preference. They were actually very pleased with that! Wow!
We did learn that our therapist, Lucy, is retiring the end of July. So we will be getting someone new. That is sad, since Travis loves her, and Justin tolerates her (the best we can hope for now!) And from what we have learned from others who have used ECI, therapists tend to come and go frequently, so for us to have been so consistent is rare. And for someone so experienced is also rare. We will miss her.
We also found out we can add PT through ECI after we get cut off by our insurance. That will hopefully fill the gap until we can switch to Randy's insurance.
Tomorrow we head to the DS Clinic again. I will tell you how it goes!
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