It was truly a red-letter-day!
Posts Tagged ‘speech therapy’
3 Mar
Kumbaya
Last week, we had IT Boy’s first collaborative meeting. Due to be held monthly, these meetings are intended to bring everyone on “Team Boy” together to talk about his therapies and how best to work together to achieve these goals. It was a bit daunting, this first meeting. We had our service coordinator from Early [...]
8 Feb
Baby stepping
I’m telling everyone in earshot that IT Boy and I had the bath of a lifetime last night. He picked up every toy in the tub and, in his own IT language, asked what each toy was. He went in order, red soccer ball, blue soccer ball, green soccer ball, then repeating it, until Buzz [...]
18 Jan
State of the IT Boy
As of last night, all the “annual” progress reports from IT Boy’s various therapist have arrived. I say “annual” because not everyone has been working with him for a full year, but his review is on the anniversary of him starting in Early Intervention, hence “annual”.
In any case, the news is good and the news [...]
13 Dec
Talk to me
IT Boy has started speech therapy. Two months ago, his occupational therapist (OT) recommended that he be evaluated for speech delays. Some of our shared concerns were feeding delays due to his hypotonia/low tone and his not pointing. During his subsequent speech evaluation, I could clearly see that he had many more delays than just those, [...]
6 Dec
Late Bloomer, or Truly Delayed?
Susan Etlinger’s most excellent blog The Family Room has a great post about what to do when your child is not meeting his or her milestones. It’s a horrible feeling for any parent to think that your child might have something wrong with them, but it can be made worse by well meaning others who [...]
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