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Jake had his EI evaluation today (long)

I thought it was just going to be a speech eval. but it ended up being a full EI eval. He scored low on the speech part, and actually scored lower on the receptive language than on the spoken language, which I didn't expect. He also scored low on adaptive skills. Good news is social skills, gross motor skills and fine motor skills are perfectly on target.

They think his language issues may be due to a hearing problem, which may be something as simple as fluid in the ears. We have his well-check scheduled for tomorrow am, so I can discuss that with the pedi tomorrow, we may need to see an ENT first to rule out fluid in the inner ears, and then after that we have to go to a hearing specialist and do a hearing test.

There is also a possibility that he has a vision problem since he doesn't do much pointing, so we have to schedule a vision screen also.

So as of now, Jake is enrolled in the Early Intervention program through the board of DD, we are going to be having weekly meetings with an EI specialist who will be working with us and he is on the waiting list to get in to see the speech therapist through the board of DD (we have to pay if we go anywhere else and our insurance does not cover it). He also has to have further evaluation to check for a possible sensory issue since he has one or two "red flags", if that evaluation comes up with issues then we would also be seeing an occupational therapist once a week. After reading up on sensory disorders I really don't think he has one though.

At this point I'm just feeling a little overwhelmed

Re: Jake had his EI evaluation today (long)

  • I would say overwhelmed is a pretty appropriate feeling!! I hope everything goes well with the pedi and you get it figured out. My cousin didn't talk much until she got tubes put in her ears a few months ago and she has made drastic improvements (She is only 2)! 
  • I totally understand why you would be feeling overwhelmed.  A full EI evaluation is definitely overwhelming, but you get a well-rounded picture from it.  I can not stress to you enough though how huge it is that you are having the interventions with him now.  He will benefit in the long run for sure!!  Good luck with everything!!
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  • That is overwhelming!  I'm amazed they can even detect things like that so early.  It will be so good for him to get him involved in things now.  GL with it all.
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  • That is overwhelming.  My head would be spinning right now.  But it is so nice to see how *up* on things they are these days and that it can get taken care of early, rather than later.  Hopefully it is just something simple like fluid on the ears.  Keep us posted.  I'm very curious about all of this as we have Davis' 18 month next week and he says nothing, not one word.  She told me 12 words by 18 months, ugh!  I have a feeling I might be doing something similiar with Davis soon, that is if our pedi sees the lack of speech as an issue and I have a feeling she will.  She was surprised when he didn't talk at 15 months.
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  • I'm sorry Hound. It all does sound scary. It sounds like everything will move along fast and you should have some quick answers!
  • It's good that you are being proactive though and getting things taken care of.  Having Jeff in speech was the best thing that I ever did for him.  Honestly I would recommend speech to anyone just because of how much it has helped him.  We don't do EI though, we go to Hyman Hearing & Speech by St. John's, our insurance covers 25 visits a year once we meet our deductible. 
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  • I'm sorry. Hopefully they can catch everything early enough that there won't be any problems in the future. Let me know if there is anything I can do for you.
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  • I didn't realize how in depth they are!  It's nice at least to get a good picture of what's happening.

     

  • For Carly's PT we started out at the FC Rehab and was paying over $100 for a 30 minute session. That got old REAL quick so we got her into the board of DD for PT there and they were seriously awesome!! Jake will love it there! GL!
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