Language Evaluation

Happy Valentines Day!! Nothing planned for tonight. Ben and I are taking a night away in Mpls. this weekend for dinner and shopping. Nice dinner at home tonight and then I am headed to the gym. How romantic!

Kid update:
I decided to have a Language Evaluation done through the school for Collin. It has sorta been in the back of my mind since he was 2. With my background in language and doing birth to 3 speech and language in the past I knew that it wasn't uncommon for boys and second children to develop their language skills a little later. So I had planned on waiting until Collin turned 2 1/2 to see where he was at and knowing that if not much had changed that it would be easier for him to qualify for services when he was a little bit older.

So, Collin had his language evaluation yesterday. They are still finishing but it looks like he will qualify under Expressive Language. It scores it 1 to 100. 100 being the high score. He had to get a 78 to qualify for services. He got a 77, so just barely qualified. Which is what I was assuming he would do. He scored real high on his Receptive Language so he is understanding everything, just can't get the words out. They are also going to do an Articulation Eval. to see how he does on forming the sounds. He may qualify for that too. They will do that testing next Tuesday. Ben is going to take him to an audiologist at the end of the month to check his hearing and/or any fluid blockage although I am not concerned that he does. He has never had any issues with ear infections or anything. I think it is just an overall Language Delay. The speech therapist will come right to our home and work with him. We had the speech therapist and Early Childhood teacher here yesterday and he worked really well with them. Followed their directions really well and didn't even need me in the room when they worked with him. So I think he will respond well to the extra help and get caught up fairly quickly. So, that is the latest with Mr. Collin.

Hope everyone has a lovely Valentine's Day and gets to spend it with the ones they LOVE!!