Annual eval meeting

We had Ben's annual evaluation meeting to continue services for Early Intervention. The Developmental Therapist that evaluated him a week ago was there, as well as his service coordinator and his physical therapist. The DT went first and she is not recommending any services at this time. She said she only found him about 4% delayed, and a lot of that could be explained by him not being as cooperative for her because the day after her eval, we found out he had ANOTHER ear infection. So, he was kind of cranky when she came. Other than a few things he would not perform for and we could not assess, he did remarkably well. His only delay was in gross motor-about a 30% delay, which we kind of knew would happen. The speech therapist also called in for the meeting and said she was, obviously, not recommending services at this time. And again said she would recommend that Ben follow up with a pulmonologist to assess whether or not he may have Reactive airway disease, which is a precursor to asthma. Not totally out of the realm of possibilities since asthma is prevalent on my dad's side of the family. Then his PT talked and while she did not find a 30% delay, she did find him delayed in gross motor with regards to higher level skills. As well as Ben still has low tone in his upper body, so she was recommending continuing services on a monthly basis.

Basically, Ben does not go up and down the stairs yet and does not jump yet. These are all higher level skills that he should be doing at around 27 months old. Of course, he did not even start walking until 17 months old, so it may just take some time for him to start doing these things, but I am sure he will get there. Also, there is the fact that every time he tries to go down the stairs, his sisters tell him, "STOP, Ben, you don't walk, you bump bump down the stairs." They are just trying to keep him safe by making him butt scoot own the stairs, but it obviously doesn't help his progress with walking down the stairs. :) So, we continued our IFSP and Ben will continue getting PT once a month. The service coordinator offered transition plans, but I declined because we will not meet the criteria of our school anyways, and we will be keeping him at Montessori when he turns 3. So, it is not necessary. Other than that, everything went very well and we are very happy with the progress Ben is making!

Right before Crazy hair day at school-hence the blue hair