speech

If you can remember, at the beginning of summer most of your vocab consisted of animals, and the few commands you knew were only understood by momma or daddy. Dr. Schmidt wanted to check back at the end of summer, and if you were still not putting words together to make sentences he recommended we get a few things tested so we could get you caught up. When the end of summer came around, not enough progress was made, so the testing began.

You passed your Health exams with flying colors. Everyone seemed amazed that a kid so active and strong could have undergone a heart surgery. No surprise there!

Your Hearing exam was an interesting experience. I thought for sure you would be scared and unwilling to cooperate, but momma thought wrong. You sat on my lap in this little room cluttered with creepy animals and blinking lights. For what its worth, if I was two I would have been scared. Every so often little chirps went off in various corners of the room. You swung your head to and fro to figure out what animal could be making that noise. It was a a pretty fun game, so much so that you started jabbering all about the animals chirping and forgot to listen for the next one to make a noise that on one occasion I was asked to quiet you down. I love your enthusiasm, even if they didn't. After all was said and done you did amazing and have no hearing problems!

Later that week Jaque came to our house to do some tests. She worked on gross and fine motor skills. problem solving skills, social skills, responsive language, and expressive language. I bet you can guess on what you aced? You see, in order to qualify for Early Intervention, a program to help you get on track before you are three, you needed to test low enough in at least one area to be considered a severe delay. You aced all the motor skills and scored low enough in language to qualify for the program.

While you were being tested both mom and dad had a strange feeling of pride and fear. There was so much excitement for doing well on a section of the test and a also a fear that you may not qualify. Glad that it is all over, we couldn't be more excited that you get to work with Aubrie on your speech for the next couple of months.