It's that lovely time of the year! My husband and I snuck off to a VERY cozy Italian place and had such a lovely lunch/dinner. It was nice. I love their food. Not like Carrabbas, mind you, but close.
Today we had our 2nd meeting at ChildFind. (ChildFind is the counties equivalent of special services for children who need it.) Matthew has been tested, evaluated and we got the results today. We weren't terribly surprised. He surpassed all expectations in the Cognitive thinking and intellect. Layman's terms? HE'S SMART as a whip scoring HIGHER than alot of American kids!!!!
On the Language side? Expressive Language to be exact.....he didn't pass not one thing. Not one. Which is where we knew he needs help. He scored well below average and well below most American children.
End result? He WILL receive special services from the county at one of the public schools. He will receive speech and possibly some hearing impaired help. We need to find out if this hearing loss is permanent, if it's reversible, does he need a hearing aid? Things like this. We will see his ENT on March 10th. We should hopefully know more than.
We had a long talk with the director of his daycare. They will begin to implement some "hearing impaired" things that they can do to ease Matthew's learning. (ie, make him sit upfront, specific instructions geared towards him only, speaking up, etc.) We were informed that this is the only child they have ever had with hearing impairedness. (is that a word?)
We will look into the means of the medical aspect of the hearing to see what can be done. As well as the non-medical also. Until then? We keep doing what we are doing.
Momma Kooky
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