Evaluations

This week each of the children had some sort of evaluation. Joshua had a full evaluation with Early Intervention on Monday. It had been a year since his last one that qualified him for physical therapy. I had actually requested the eval for my own peace of mind. I wanted to be sure Joshua was not only on target for gross motor but for speech as well. He not only is on target for everything, but he is even ahead in some things because he is able to sort things that are red. He is also beginning to make 3-word sentences saying, "I want ________."

Rebekah had a speech and language evaluation today. A little over a year ago Rebekah was evaluated and determined to be about 6 months behind. Suggestions to put her in preschool as well as to do some things with her at home were made to help her overcome some of her obstacles. Most recently hearing, speech, and language screenings were offered at Rebekah's preschool. Since there were some concerns with her speech we opted to have a full evaluation done. She is actually showing ahead in her receptive language at a 5-year level due to the fact that she knows her letters and can do simple addition and subtraction. However, she is slightly behind in her expressive language due to her /l/ sounds. Generally, children have the /l/ sound down pat by age 4 1/2, which is not far off for Rebekah. She actually pronounces it much like /n/, which I've noticed for a while now. I have been given some very specific things to help her correct this problem. So, on average Rebekah's speech/language combined are actually pretty much on target. We'll have her rechecked in about six months to see how she is progressing and to determine if she may need a couple of therapy sessions, but for now we can work on a few things at home.