Baby 11

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Bad mommy day
Today is one of those days. Every mommy has them. You just feel like even though you’ve done everything in your power to make things right for your children but you’re just not measuring up. Charlie had his eval for Child Find, the public school based special education program. Part of me feels horrible for even thinking about this but I was sort of hoping they would find something other than just his speech being delayed. If he qualified for services under more than one development area he could go to special preschool run through the state and no matter what he’d be accepted. Not gonna happen. He is delayed but only in speech. So actually I’m quite happy with that but on the other side it’s going to be awhile before he can go to preschool. The one he will be going to he has to be potty trained. I can’t/won’t force the potty issue. So that’s more than likely out. The upside is through Child Find he still qualifies for speech. (Sort of an upside/downside thing) While I’d prefer he not need services at all at least he still qualifies enough to get the help. We’ll go in December for an education plan meeting (IEP) to set up his schedule for services. At this point preliminary talk has been him receiving an hour of time once a week at the local school. I will have to take him and pick him. Not sure how we’re going to work that at the moment. Hoping we can get on a day Daddy has off. But no real shock at his eval as for where his speech is at. At his inital meeting the end of March, Charlie was testing at a 12 month range with some scattered 18 month skills for his expressive speech and 24 months for his cognitive speech. Testing today: Still at or just above 24 months for cognitive speech. Expressive speech 18 months with very few scattered 24 month skills. Not good. Our almost 3 year old has the speech of someone half his age. Although he is growing by leaps and bounds. Today he actually said Chair to Ms. Michelle (his speech therapist) and he also told her tracks as in train tracks. A little bit of progress but I can’t wait till my baby can actually tell me what he wants rather than grunts, screams and cries.

His other phrase he’s been working on the last few days: Trick or treat Kind sounds like try or tray but hes working on it.