Lily

Paul and I had Lily re-evaluated yesterday by our local Early Intervention program. Back in January she had been evaluated and wasn't found to be eligible for services. However we still had some concerns and wanted her re-evaluated. I'm happy to say that now she qualifies. She will be receiving speech therapy once a week and behavioral therapy twice a month. She has a 30% delay in speech, mainly expressive and articulation. She has a 30% delay in social cognitive as well.

As far as speech goes, the main concerns is her inability to pronounciate words. She often leaves off the ending of words and rarely says words that are more than one syllable. She doesn't move her tounge side to side or up, which in turn affects her speech. She also doesn't use a lot of verbs or put multiple words together by herself. She will if prodded, but not on her own.

With the social piece, she basically needs to learn how to regulate herself and her emotions. This is the area that Paul and I have a lot of concern with, and we have our suspicions regarding this area which I"m not going to get into online... but if you know us well enough, you exactly what we are talking about.

Anyways, we are happy she will be getting the help she needs, and my only hope is that by the time she starts school she will be all caught up.