Running to her momma…
Got home from our trip to NC last night, so today was spent unpacking and washing an insane amount of dirty clothes. No, they’re not done yet, so that continues tomorrow :) I’ll be doing a post about our trip when I’m not this tired, but until then…
Lainey had her speech/language evaluation through the school system today. She is currently receiving speech services through the state program for children 3 and under. She ages out of this in July, and will then be seen by the local elementary school therapist (who, thankfully, we hear is really good). Today’s eval went great, she cooperated with everything. The therapist was looking at her communication skills, both receptively (how much she understands) and expressively (both speech and sign language). Receptive skills are above average…she made it up to age 3 1/2 with sporadic correct answers up to age 5. Woo hoo :) Expressive skills, like we thought, are a little delayed. She scored in the 2 - 2 1/2 age range. Most of this is through signing, but she is consistently vocalizing with each sign and putting together sentences of 4-5 sounds/signs long. At times, it seems as though her speech progress is going soooo slowly. But, when we compare where she is now to where she was, she really has made big strides.
