Speech Path. Appointment
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We had E’s speech pathology appointment today. The pathologist was very nice, very thorough in her “interview” and test (the test was geared to us) and great with her interaction with E.
As we expected, she scored quite low on her expressive language. But we were surprised to learn that she was also testing well below her age for receptive languague. She is testing at 10 months for her expressive language skills and 13 months for her receptive language skills (11 & 8 months behind her chronological age). The pathologist’s biggest “red flag” was that E still uses one word (partial-word, actually) to mean several things. “da” can mean dad, help, head, hat, thank you & bye-bye. She has a couple words she does this. After initial testing, they are labeling her as pre-Apraxiac. Early Intervention really wants a 12-month delay before they’ll get involved but labeling her as pre-Apraxiac (something they suspect now but can’t officially declare until about 24 months old), that should get her into EI sooner.
She gave us the information on EI and I will call them on Monday.
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I snagged this one from Amy. I surprised myself…I thought I missed a couple!
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Rambling update
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The *HOT* weather has descended upon us! Man, yesterday was awful!! While this house doesn’t have air conditioning either, it doesn’t have the afternoon sun coming into the living room and it has more windows, a better layout for air flow and the windows open more. Much cooler than in our last place but still not comfortable when its 95 and your fans are in Germany! LOL It is supposed to cool off tomorrow, thankfully.
We joined the YMCA tonight. They are offering free membership to military members and free registration to military dependants. We’ve been looking around for swimming & gymnastics for Elizabeth. We couldn’t find any swimming for her age and the gymnastics was going to cost us almost as much as the Y membership for both of us. So for an add’l $4/month, she’ll get both of those plus I can workout there (our gym on post doesn’t have A/C and is ridiculously hot) and we can do free swim times also. I met the lady who runs the aquatic program at LLL last month. I enjoyed talking to her at the meeting last month. It’d be nice to have a friendly face to talk to when we go there.
Elizabeth & I are heading to Indiana next week. I’m looking forward to getting away and sleeping in a bed. LOL I had prepared myself to not be home again until the winter (once we were in Germany) but now that we’re still here, I have been itching to get back. I’m pretty psyched. The cheapest ticket, though, was for a direct flight (NWA just started doing directs). I have always enjoyed the layovers as they have given us a nice break. Also, this flight is completly booked, so we really won’t have space to move about, so layovers are esp. nice for those flights. It’ll be interesting for sure!!
We now have three of Jim’s school dates! We’re still waiting on dates for two (three?) more. He’ll start in October and should finish up next September. Where we go from there we don’t yet know. Our next duty station & the other school dates *should* be given to us by the end of the week.
Our goods are still sitting in Germany, as far as we know. Jim is going back in tomorrow to see what he can find out. I want my dang bed!!! Or, at the very least, my couch! Our inflattable loveseat popped a hole in it and both camping chairs we got have now broken (we got them from Target and that makes FIVE that haven’t lasted…three broke within a day and we returned each of those, which should have been our first clue! LOL). So we’d like to replace at least one of those if not both.
We’re back on the charts!
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(This was an entry I meant to write a couple weeks ago. I was going to skip it now but decided I wnted it for posterity.)
Elizabeth is back on the growth charts, finally!! We had her initial speech eval done a couple weeks ago and the peds agreed that there seems to be a delay/issue of some sort. The first doctor was just starting his rotation in peds (major teaching hospital), so we took a basic overview of Elizabeth, asked some questions about BFing past one as she decided she needed to nurse while we were there (he didn’t have any training on that so I got to educate him! He called me a couple weeks later and thanked me for the books & websites I recommended to him–yea!), etc and then went to talk to a couple of docs on the peds team. The doc who came back asked me lots of questions about her speech (or lack thereof) and decided to get us further evaluated. So she has an appointment with a speech pathologist this week and an appointment with an audiologist next week. If there truly is enough of a delay to cause concern, we’ll go from there.
I was somewhat hesitant to go for the evaluation since she is still so young. But that was also the reason I wanted to get it checked out. If there IS a problem, I’d like to help her now while her mind is still so young. If she didn’t have so much frustration surrounding it, I would likely hold off. But I’ve been holding off for months now and things aren’t improving much. My intuition has told me there was a problem for about 9 months now and I’ve played the wait-and-see game. The other part that made me want to go ahead is the appearant
difference in her receptive language & expressive language skills.
She has great receptive language (somewhat ahead of her age from what
I’ve read) while her expressive language is more like that of a
12-month old (from what I’ve read). A 9-month difference is quite a
bit at this age.
So, we’ll see what happens! I am very pleased that a) we found out she was back on the growth charts….16 months after she dropped off! and b) the doctors actually took me seriously and agreed that we should further evaluate.