She's In!

Jensyn had her eligibility evaluation for the Infant-Toddler Program today. She is eligible for speech therapy. The therapists were impressed with her receptive language, cognitive and motor skills. It is just baffling as to why she is still not talking.

My parents were out visiting and they now 'get' what I am so concerned about. It is very hard to explain, but once you spend any time with her, you get it. It is not any of the reasons that I have heard from well meaning advice givers, i.e.; she has her passie too much, she won't talk until you take it away, her sisters talk for her, she is the baby and babies never talk on time, she needs to be around other kids her age, she will talk when she is ready, she doesn't need to talk everyone gives her what she wants, etc. She wants to talk, her Barbies talk to each other (in porpoise squawk). It is almost like she can't talk.

I have scheduled a hearing test with Carly's audiologist. We are fairly sure she can hear everything, but we want to leave no stone unturned. We will start speech therapy through the county as soon as we get her health assessment back from her pediatrician. In the mean time we will continue the private therapy.