Marley had a re-eval done today by her early intervention speech teacher. The gains are just amazing--we are thrilled. We've seen her progress so much in the 7+ months she's been with us, but it was awesome to see the differences in her testing today. I know that having the love of a family has given her the opportunity to grow so much so quickly, but I also credit her stubborn streak and independent personality!!
On January 29th, when Marley was just a week shy of being 2 years old and had been home with us 20 days, her eval showed these results:
Gross motor skills: 13 months
Fine motor skills: 13 months
Receptive language skills: 11 months
Expressive language skills: 7 months
On March 26th, when Marley was almost 26 months old and had been home with us over 2 1/2 months, her eval showed these results:
Gross motor skills: 18 months
Fine motor skills: 16 months
Receptive language skills: 18 months
Expressive language skills: 12 months
Today, when Marley is just over 30 months old and has been home with us over 7 months, her eval showed these results:
Gross motor skills: 30 months
Fine motor skills: 27 months
Receptive language skills: 27 months
Expressive language skills: 24 months
Her expressive language is her biggest remaining deficit, and the challenge will be to help her with articulation so that she can be understood. She uses about 40 signs and verbalizes quite a bit, but her words are not clear because she still needs some time to learn how to change the way her palate works so that she can make different sounds with different parts of her mouth. She is only about 3 months post-repair for her palate.
She'll be attending a special preschool program 5 mornings/week starting after Labor Day, with the hope that having intensive class-based services will help her finish catching up in those remaining deficit areas, with lots of speech and language services to close that larger gap in ability.
We are so proud of her for how far she has come so fast. She went from infant-like to terrible two at break-neck speed! We don't do things slowly around here, so she fits right in!
4 comments:
How awesome for her! She is such a cutie We have had Aiden home about 9 months... he was in EI but now goes to the school preschool... It is amazing how these kids pick up so many things so fast. (his language delay is our biggest obstacle as well) Take care!
Wow!! What a smartie, so glad she's home with you guys now and thriving : )
Wow Wow Wow, what can you say, but Wow and congrats, she is beautiful!
Sue
Waiting with BAAS for Juni
That is such great news, especially knowing how worried you were about her in China. Our china kids are so amazing aren't they!!
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