So now it is a wait and see on Feb 10th to see how his hearing is doing... lets hope better!!!
Well as I have said before we have been waiting for ECI to come an evaluate Gray... we started this process in December... and it has taken this long to get all the ducks in a row and working and have the speech pathologist come with the ECI person... and see if Gray qualifies... last time we met with them it seemed like he prob would not qualify... cause they have to be 6 months delayed... and they ECI person didn't seem to think that he was... SO I was nervous and excited and confused! Well as Grayson is now 18 months... he needed to be on the level in his language development of a 12 month old! Well today they did lots of little "tests" and asked lots of questions... and it was very interesting to see how he reacted and what he can do for others and it gave me LOTS of hope! No he didn't break out in full sentences... BUT he did make different sounds... and showed off his coloring skills and playing skills for the 2 women! Well as the eval was coming to an end the 2 women had decided that his main issue is speech... duh... but they feel it is more hearing... breathing related than an actual speech issue! Meaning... since he has the ear issues with some hearing issues it has delayed his verbal skills... and once prob after a year of clear ears is when we will see a true hearing improvement... my question is why can I ask him to do something.. YET the reason he has the speech delay is hearing... the SLP said that she feels that yes he can hear BUT he doesn't quiet get the language part of it.... I don't know... then with his breathing issues (asthma) the reasoning the SLP feels he doesn't really "link" babbles together is that he gets short of breath and thus he doesn't want to waste the breath to talk! SO after all this the way these women were talking it seemed like she felt that only after his hearing is better and we have his asthma better controlled then he will improve and that there was no need for ECI for him... I was a little upset... then she told me how he measured up on the tests...
the different areas they tested are to follow along with what age range he scored at!
for Gross/Fine Motor development - 29 months
for Social/Emotional development - 27 months
for Cognitive development - 18 months
for Receptive Language - 9 months
for Expressive Language - 7 months
So as I already knew he has awesome motor and social skills my active social butterfly... BUT he scored even less on his language than previously thought! :( A few things that the ECI people said... was they were SO impressed with what he could do... how advanced he was in other aspects of growth... they really think that the language will come! They feel that his receptive language is prob higher than 9 months but because he doesn't express himself using words... he scores low on the receptive scale! SO the plan... Ms. P (ECI lady) will be seeing Gray at KRK once a week doing play therapy using games and sounds to improve speech and once a month Gray will meet with the actual Speech Therapist for ST... then in 6 months (when he is 24 months) we will reevaluate him and see if he needs more or less... and if he is to continue we will start a new plan and start the talk of what the plan will be when he is 3!
I am SO excited to know... I really am not crazy or imagining the language delay... yes I have heard SO many times... boys talk later than girls... oh it is perfectly normal for him to still not talk... but today my issues were validated and confirmed... so I am happy that I was correct and that Gray will be getting the help he needs... BUT with that being said... I am VERY sad to know that he is delayed! I want Gray to have everything in life and want for nothing and I fear that I have done something to cause this delay! But so far it just seems like it is life for him! But at least we have a plan now!
Also the best part of today... is my homework for Grayson... how I can help my little man! I have been trying to do research on how to help him talk and I have listened to others advice but today I got VERY good advice that we have already started to use!
First... we were told to stop with trying to make him use words... to actually go back even further... and use syllables or sounds of letters or fun sounds and see if he can copy that... like ba ba ba ba... I know this may sound simple to most people but remember he is testing at the babbling stage... so we have to go back to this... yes we are still talking to him and I still tell him what we are doing and I talk to him and ask him questions... but we are also working on him trying to copy my sounds... next similar to the previous when we color... or slide or whatever... try to make a game of it and use syllables to describe what I'm doing... like a line drawn as I'm drawing I say "weeeee" and try to get him to copy the line along with the "wee" then lots of praise! Next instead of reading books to him (as Gray is not the fan of the whole story) we are going to read books that have themes... like a duck... and every page all we say is duck and point out the duck till Gray starts to point out the duck... then he will eventually start to say duck... at least that is the hope! Also with every day magazines like my Parents or Baby Talk magazine... use those for Gray and have him point out objects... so we are gonna try all these suggestions! Oh another one is since Gray LOVES outside... we are gonna start playing "Red light/Green Light"... we will start at one end of the yard... then I will say "Ready, Set, GO" and run till I say "Stop" eventually he will start to say "Go" and "stop" then all of it... at least that is the goal!
SO that is what is going on... 29... 27.. 18... 9... 7... the only valid number is the 18... which Gray's cognitive skills... so he understands things at the correct level... everything else he is WAY ahead or WAY behind!
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