C and D

C and D

Monday, January 30, 2012

Speech continued....continued....

...........................we start tomorrow with his speech therapy but let's backtrack for a second....

so we had his hearing test on Friday. the full blown diddy. he was so good thank the LORD because it requires lots of patience and looooots of staying still as she had to put these little probes in his ears with lots of wires attached that hooked up to a computer. and if the probes fell out she had to start all over. so luckily, decky is able to sit still and concentrate so they pumped odd noises and tones into his ears and got feedback/echos from his cochlea that were really really good. SO - hearing is not the issue. just speech :) i am really glad that we ruled that out though so we have one less thing to worry about. she also tested for fluid in his ears and it was a good time to test as he was on the tail end of a cold and he had absolutely no fluid in there. so, his ear canals properly drain. i know you were worried....

ok so the hearing is done. we went for a second opinion this morning with BabyNet which is a state run program that pee dee speech and hearing actually recommended to us because our insurance does not cover the therapy (bomb dot com, thanks for being suuuper expensive decky!!!). you have to get an eval and if your child qualifies for needing some help than the therapists actually come to your house and work with them. i was looking forward to this because A) its just another professional in the field looking at my child and B) if he qualifies than we will not be paying out our bumholes for this speech situation!

well - the lady is going to call me tomorrow to go over the test results, but she was pretty certain that he wouldn't qualify. apparently he says TOO many words and understands TOO much. as paul put it, we have a "gamer" - he stepped up his game right in time for the eval and said lots of words and performed like a champ. but that doesn't really help us out, dec......................so thanks a lot ;) i was afraid of this and had a pretty good feeling this was how it was going to go. just understanding a little bit of how the "system" works - you have to really really be bad off in order to get help. and decky isn't. he's behind. he has a bit of a delay, but not enough for them to intervene.

sooooo - like i said before, we go tomorrow and i really can't wait to start the process for him. and i think decky is excited to go play with some more bubbles :)