Testing

Andrielle had testing done that last two days; she had speech and cognitive on Wednesday and physical yesterday. This testing will determine whether or not she qualifies for the preschool and how many days she qualifies for.

So, her speech scores show that she's where she should be at about the age of 1 year 6 months, so she's about a year and a half behind in speech. 10 months ago when they did this test for the first time, she was at 1 year 2 months. Her physical therapy (peabody) testing scores show her at between 1 year 6 months to 2 years. When she was first tested for that (10 months ago) she was between 9 months and 1 year 6 months. We'll get her cognitive scores soon. SO - she is improving, but not as quickly as we were hoping and she hasn't improved as much as she should have with all the help she's been getting and all the work we've been doing. It's very discouraging. But the good news is she will definately qualify for preschool services, now we just need to wait until our IEP (Individual Education Plan) meeting to see how many days she will get. I'm really hoping for at least 2 days a week, but would love to see her qualify for 3 days, which would be the maximum she could get.

We are also looking into getting some other testing done on her to see if maybe there is a real REASON why she has such a hard time learning. I talked to the eye doctor yesterday and we'll get her tested beginning of next year, as soon as we get her on our eye insurance. I'm wondering if maybe she has poor eyesight or maybe a depth perception problem. The therapists are also sending her test scores (both recent and from 10 months ago) to her pediatrician. We'll then go in and talk with him and see if maybe a CT scan or MRI is an option to see if there is a neurological problem. I'm anxious to get testing done. I would love to know if there is something going on so that I know what we're up against and if it's a temporary thing or something we'll be dealing with forever.

It has definately been an emotional week for me. I just want my little girl to be "normal" and basically I just don't want her to have any trials - haha. I guess that's why we're here, though. We've got to learn and grow somehow. I'm just praying we learn what we need to from this.