Because of budget cuts last year, we were unable to get the boys (Jaxen & Tyler) into parents as teachers (PAT)- even with Jaxen's speech delay. The school district got cut down to providing services for only 10 families. You can imagine how super excited I was during back to school night when the PAT coordinator found us and told us that they were able to offer services to more families and we were on her list.
Yesterday, was the first time Mrs.R came out to the house. It was nice to finally have a program that Tyler could participate in to. He was so excited that he got to play with the toys and be included. The PAT coordinator, Mrs. R, is part of the team helping with Jaxen's transition into the school district. So we took this opportunity to try and give Jaxen a few tests that he needs done as party off the transition process. Jaxen just wasn't having it. Mrs. R was new and Jax just wouldn't cooperate. Both his hearing and vision screening were scored as inconclusive.
Tyler's screening showed was I'm beginning to suspect and have plans in place to deal with -- he too is delayed in the speech and language area. I am not jumping to get him enrolled in services as of now (he is only 15 months old) but I do have everything documented and ready to go when we feel we need to. The screening showed that Tyler has no concern with his gross motor skills - climbing, throwing, walking. He is on the boarder with fine motor skills - coloring, recognizing and pointing to objects in a book. He is definitely behind "average" in speech and language. So now it's all about timing and when we want to get Tyler into services -- and again, I'd really like to wait until I know he just not a late talker.
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