Devin's Speech Update

Today we had the meeting with Joanne from the Birth To Three program. She came do a developmental evaluation on Devin to see if he qualifies for the Birth To Three program based only on her evaluation.

They spent about an hour playing with puzzles, looking at books, stacking blocks, coloring and such. Devin was actually having a really great time. The great news is that she said he is WAY ahead on every level of her test. The ONLY problem that she saw was the pronunciation of words. She said he knows many more words that he should know at the age and is putting them together in larger sentences than is recommended at this age, it is just the way he is saying them. She said in each segment of her test that he is testing well over the 40 month mark. (He is 32 months old right now.) She was really impressed when he counted to 20 and told her every letter in the alphabet when they were using her flash cards.

She still wants him to see their speech pathologist but said she honestly thinks that they will recommend some things for us to work on at home and he shouldn't need speech therapy. There is still a chance that when they come back on January 6th that the speech pathologist may still recommend therapy- but she really doubts that will happen.

That is such great news for us. I know that his speech problem probably wasn't that big of a deal- but you always worry when your child is having a hard time learning something. I had to brag on him a little bit. We're always SO proud of our little sweet boy! I'm so relieved that he might not need speech therapy! I'll keep everyone posted after our meeting with the speech pathologist on January 6th.