Holy cow Blooie! I can imagine you're furious. This is the kind of stuff that drives me crazy. The kind of thing where after the fact they go "We don't know what happened. We will investigate" and then years and years go by until they come up with some big rapport full of blah blah about who dropped the ball.
I'm glad we've got our shelter now. We do have a community shelter, but it would do us no good if something was that close!
Anyway. Thanks y'all. It's nice to have some folks to talk to that are a bitolder wiser and have been there.
We get 45 minutes of therapy twice a month in-home.. it's not much, but enough for him. I don't think he could handle much more of the 'special instruction'. It's sort of forceful, very repetitive and it makes him angry at times... but she always makes it up to him by letting him dance. That little boy LOOOVES to dance. It's the cutest thing. She's worked with him for a year on the same stuff... and he can repeat her during therapy, but only because she makes him
Only recently he started to use some of the signs on his own. After a YEAR. My son is very, VERY stubborn.
I'm excited though, he's using words now. He's asking for 'mihk' (milk) several times a day.... I can't say no when he actually uses words! I'm hearing some other words too, hard to understand, but he's trying. We've got an appointment in a week or two for his IEP (individual education plan), since he will leave the early intervention plan in January, when he turns 3... so we gotta find other programs for him. We live in a college town and they actually have a training program in town for audiologist and speech pathologists and all that jazz, so they offer therapy with folks that are in training. Beats driving to Birmingham (suicide by vehicle... basically). I told the lady at the hearing center that I was going to take him there and she pretty much ignored that and went back to trying to talk me into driving to Birmingham. "Well, if you can't do it weekly, how about biweekly?" ....which part of 'my kid can't handle the drive' do you not get?
Poor fellah. I used to get car sick too... even as an adult! As a little kid I once puked on an elderly lady in a furcoat while riding the bus... And I threw up in the bus during a schooltrip in high school.... talk about embarrassing. I thought I was ok, but nope.... I know what he's going through. It's scary having to strip down a little boy at the side of a 4-5 lane interstate with traffic flying by because he just puked all over himself and his car seat. But, knock on wood, he has not gotten sick in a while. The dramamine works.
I'm glad we've got our shelter now. We do have a community shelter, but it would do us no good if something was that close!
Anyway. Thanks y'all. It's nice to have some folks to talk to that are a bit
We get 45 minutes of therapy twice a month in-home.. it's not much, but enough for him. I don't think he could handle much more of the 'special instruction'. It's sort of forceful, very repetitive and it makes him angry at times... but she always makes it up to him by letting him dance. That little boy LOOOVES to dance. It's the cutest thing. She's worked with him for a year on the same stuff... and he can repeat her during therapy, but only because she makes him
I'm excited though, he's using words now. He's asking for 'mihk' (milk) several times a day.... I can't say no when he actually uses words! I'm hearing some other words too, hard to understand, but he's trying. We've got an appointment in a week or two for his IEP (individual education plan), since he will leave the early intervention plan in January, when he turns 3... so we gotta find other programs for him. We live in a college town and they actually have a training program in town for audiologist and speech pathologists and all that jazz, so they offer therapy with folks that are in training. Beats driving to Birmingham (suicide by vehicle... basically). I told the lady at the hearing center that I was going to take him there and she pretty much ignored that and went back to trying to talk me into driving to Birmingham. "Well, if you can't do it weekly, how about biweekly?" ....which part of 'my kid can't handle the drive' do you not get?
