I had Aiden's Team Meeting yesterday. Previously he was diagnosed w/ a Communicative Disorder. He had reduced auditory comprehension and expressive language vulnerabilities. He has an IEP with the school system and has been receiving outpatient speech services for this since November. One of his speech pathologists, who is also his case worker, pushed to have him further evaluated, due to difficulties they were having and things they 'noticed' (his oddities) while trying to work with him. He had an Educational Assessment which showed he does have vulnerabilities in self-social awareness, direction/position, time/sequence, and most of these vulnerabilities were also evident in the auditory comprehension area. However, his school readiness component he scored in the advanced classification, in the 91st percentile. Quiet the discrepency to go from 91% to 9% and 5% (his other scores). He had an OT assessment as well, that also stated that if she removed the auditory component and just showed him how to do something (instead of showing AND telling) he would do it fine...something about that auditory comprehension just throws him all off. With his OT results there was such a huge discrepancy (over 20 months) between the two tests that they just didn't know what to do with him. His speech pathologist (Kristina, he has two) had herself, Tricia (his other therapist) and myself fill out Children's Communication Checklist 2. Typically they can't score it until the child is over four, so she couldn't use it formally, however if she were able to score, she said it would have shown a serious delay. Because of that, and his other auditory issues, it was discovered that Aiden also has issues
with Pragmatic language. Which is something that his speech therapists can't help. Sooo long story short, he qualifies for the ELC Preschool now and will be starting NEXT WEEK! He will be going T/Wed/Th from 9-11:30 and during the summer will only be going two days a week from 8:30-10:30. They asked if I wanted him to take the bus (eek!) but I declined, I'm SO not ready for him to be on the bus.
Here's a recent pic of the boys.
2 comments:
It's great that they decided to reassess him, and I hope that the exposure to preschool will help minimize the discrepancy between his performance and ability. I'll bet you never thought you'd be sending your child off to school this soon, and I totally hear you on the bus thing! LOL!! What a great job you are doing with your two handsome boys! Hugs, Bex.
I am so glad to hear that they are going to work with him some more. He is such a sweet boy.
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