Speech Eval

We had the evaluation today.  She performs at an 18 month level in every category except Social/Emotional which is at 24 months and Expressive Communication which is at 6 months.  So we’ll be getting speech therapy.  I was really impressed with some of the occupational exercises they had her do, I knew she was smart, [...]

I Told You So and Argh

Oct. 26th, 2007 at 9:08 AM

 What a day yesterday was!  I had jobs out in Chanitlly and then Gainesville.  After that I met Chica (that’s your new name!) for coffee and catch/chase the toddler.  It was great meeting you, maybe next time we can come up with someplace easier on the kiddos   [...]

Trying to keep up with journaling

Oct. 23rd, 2007 at 5:29 PM

Ella has a hearing screening on Thursday afternoon.  I’m not worried about her hearing, but it’s standard fare for speech delays.  They managed to get our eval moved to 30 Oct, YAY!!!  
Myriam is having some problems, I am hoping that the last 5 days of grounding have helped.  So [...]

Stuff

Oct. 22nd, 2007 at 8:27 AM
Friday night power went out around here. Poor Ella was standing in the area between the dining room and the office. She turned around and went running for dad and went eye first right into a Rubbermaid tub of car tools. She’s got a black eye and last night fell [...]

We Begin to Navigate the Hell of Government Systems

The scheduler for ECI called today to schedule the eval after Wednesday’s SNAFU.  We’re back to the 6 week timeline.  They gave me December 6th at 1:30pm.  Effing lovely.  Then, the Service Coordinator calls this evening and says she’s got a cancellation on Nov 2.  YAY!.  Calls again 5 minutes later, the scheduler put someone [...]