Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Speechless...

Dear Nicky,

Shelby your speech therapist didn't show today, and she didn't call, which was very unlike her. For a while we thought she might've been in trouble or something. She called later to explain that because she's switching companies, the Early Intervention bureaucracy requires her to toss all the kids she works with, including you, back to the state so they can be reassigned to a new speech therapist. This is, of course, pretty ridiculous, since all the parents have to do is call their service coordinator (usually an overworked and underpaid social worker) and insist that their current therapist continues with them, which we've done. But until all the paperwork is done being shuffled around, Shelby is forbidden by law to provide treatment to anyone in the Early Intervention program. What a system! Hopefully, this will all be straightened out by your next session. So your routine was thrown off a little today. It's actually probably good that Shelby couldn't make it today, since you got really cranky and sleepy right around the time she would've been working on you. But you're not much a napper yet. We had a lot of laughs. I discovered that if I nibble on your chin you laugh uproariously. It's great to hear. Your laugh is really maturing. Each time it's more "ha ha ha" and less babylike "uh uh uh." I mixed a jar of chicken with a jar of sweat peas and you really seemed to like it, and you took a full bottle after that. Not much else going on.

Love,
Dad

2 Comments:

Blogger Lori said...

I found your blog today & am enjoying reading it. Wonderful idea, by the way. Our son Evan has Down Syndrome & will be 18 on Jan. 21st. The time goes so quickly it's amazing! Evan was born w. 3 holes in his heart, which were closed by surgery when he was 10 months old. He has been healthy as can be ever since.

I have a blog about raising Evan at: http://upsndowns.typepad.com/the_road_not_chosen/

Keep up the posts. What a treasure this will be for your son!

1:29 PM  
Blogger Pilgrim said...

Those laughs are really fun. :-)

2:20 PM  

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