Monday, November 8, 2010
2. Early Intervention Evaluation and the beginning of therapy...
As per the recommendation of our Pediatrician, (see "1. How this journey began, the first symptom..." post 11/10), we called Early Intervention when Hunter was 8 months old. They were amazing on the phone and set up an evaluation for him in our home. Speech would be the main focus of the evaluation since he had eating difficulties. We were pleased to hear that they also planned to evaluate him in all areas. If you are interested in hearing more about the eval itself please let me know :) It was incredibly thorough and the therapists incredibly knowledgeable! It was determined that Hunter would benefit from Speech Therapy (to aid in his eating concerns) PT and OT because he did also show some low muscle tone and delays in fine and gross motor skills. We had a Service Coordinator assigned to us (She was BEYOND amazing!!) to set up goals and a treatment plan. Speech, PT & OT began in our home weekly :) Up until this point we suspected the only main concern to be eating & oral concerns. As we became more knowledgeable of his struggles with eating during our speech therapy sessions we realized that what was causing his concerns was most likely related to oral sensory concerns and what was simular to oral dyspraxia. He wasn't formally given those as a diagnosis at that time but we did use those terms to describe his concerns.
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hi could you pls give me some info in what areas they evaluated him and how?
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:) When I called Early Intervention they came to my home and did a thorough evaluation of him. They checked fine and gross motor skills and speech, oral motor skills etc. I cant remember exactly what they did but I do recall it was pretty involved and there were many activities they did with him to see where he fell as far as development and ability to carry out the task asked or directed of him. When it was done they totalled up his scores for each test and I was given a % number for the delays noted and told to what degree those % qualify for therapy and which fall within the normal range and dont qualify. They then set up a goal sheet and therapy schedule for those areas he qualified for. I would imagine if you called Early Intervention at your County office they can give you a break down on what specifically the evaluation consists of :) If you aren't in the USA I would contact your pediatrician and find out who does the testing and contact them :) Hope this helps :) TX!!
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