Lab Rat

So Monday Grant had it Occupational Evaluation and scored in about the 35th percentile for most things. This does qualify him for services. The OT therapist said she hopes it will just be a short time because he's not too far behind. So right now in addition to OT once a week we have speech twice a week and his early interventionist comes once a week. 4 hours a week of therapy.

His pediatrician wanted him to have a behavioral evaluation to find out what's really going on with him. So I called to make the appointment only to find out that there is a 4-6 month waiting list. Later I was talking to a friend who has been going through the exact same stuff with her son. She had his evaluation done in 3 weeks by signing him up for a study at Vanderbilt. They just do follow up visits every couple of months for 16 months. And best of all you don't have to pay anything for the evaluation. So I called and he has an appointment for the evaluation April 7th. They are checking to make sure the cerebral ataxia (when he quit walking) eliminates him from the study. I should know for sure within the next couple of days. My friend also got her son into a speech study that offers free speech therapy. I called about this and Grant has the evaluation on March 21st.

So I've made Grant into a lab rat, but hopefully we can get all this stuff worked out so that he will be right on track before he goes to school.

On a good note he is trying to talk a lot and has said his first 2 word phase. "blue ball" He says there is one at school. He actually calls most balls blue ball because it's the only color he can comfortably say. :-)