I started our spring cleaning today. I was expecting the usual fight with the gremlin to get things done. Either I have to fight her to pick up her things or she insists on playing right where I'm trying to work. Well she did do a little of that today, but she actually volunteered to help with a lot of it as well.
She did a good job of it too. She can be a great little helper when she wants to be! :-D
16 September 2010
14 September 2010
Been a While
Things have been really hectic around here. We finally got in to see a psychologist last month in regards to the gremlin's suspected Aspergers. It was through the public system too. We were actually surprised to hear from him... so saved us a bit of money there.
We're just waiting for him to visit her daycare now to do the second part of the evaluation. We had to fill out a form that had about 30 different key areas regarding a child's behavior. Under each one of those was a list of more specific behaviors and the way it worked was if you had checked things off in more than 15 of the key areas then they'd go on to the next step. I had stuff in 28 of them checked off for her.
So now he's got to go to the daycare and have her teacher fill out the same questionnaire, plus he'll observe her in the school environment like he did in his office to see if her behaviors are different and how she interacts with the kids. We spent about an hour and a half in the office and he gave us some tips on how to handle some of the issues we're dealing with.
So it's basically a waiting game again. He didn't say anything about seeing an occupational therapist or speech therapist, although I'm seriously considering making those appointments myself in the meantime. This just isn't something I want dragged out. I want her to get the diagnosis (if there is one) before school starts. It would be good for her to be already getting help with her socialization issues before she's in school every day. It's so hard watching her struggle to fit in and make friends, especially when all the other kids seem to love her and want to play with her.
We're just waiting for him to visit her daycare now to do the second part of the evaluation. We had to fill out a form that had about 30 different key areas regarding a child's behavior. Under each one of those was a list of more specific behaviors and the way it worked was if you had checked things off in more than 15 of the key areas then they'd go on to the next step. I had stuff in 28 of them checked off for her.
So now he's got to go to the daycare and have her teacher fill out the same questionnaire, plus he'll observe her in the school environment like he did in his office to see if her behaviors are different and how she interacts with the kids. We spent about an hour and a half in the office and he gave us some tips on how to handle some of the issues we're dealing with.
So it's basically a waiting game again. He didn't say anything about seeing an occupational therapist or speech therapist, although I'm seriously considering making those appointments myself in the meantime. This just isn't something I want dragged out. I want her to get the diagnosis (if there is one) before school starts. It would be good for her to be already getting help with her socialization issues before she's in school every day. It's so hard watching her struggle to fit in and make friends, especially when all the other kids seem to love her and want to play with her.
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