Duhdee, Monkey and I just finished an evaluation and I’m in a good mood. That never happens! Generally I leave the evaluations with a headache and a sick feeling in my stomach. I leave with all these reminders that our lives are not normal, we’re not even close but today…wow. I’d go back to visit this Dr. every day if I could, she made us feel so good about where Monkey is and where he is headed.
We heard things like…
- “He’s so bright!“
- “He finished all of the puzzles!”
- “He definitely has kindergarten level skills.”
- “He nailed all of his letters and numbers.” (Funny story there, the school says he doesn’t know them…we say he does…huh. Anyway, he was so into the numbers part that he kept naming every number he saw through out the eval and then in the elevator and then in the parking garage, lol.)
- “He’s ready to read.”
- “He’s so happy!”
Basically, everything we’ve been saying, I guess it’s not a surprise that I’m happy about it.
She did say that he is on the spectrum. He is not autistic but there are certain things, social activities and language skills that he is missing. He has some great skills but he’s one of those kids who is going to have to be taught every step of these interactions. She also said that it’s clear that we’ve been teaching him this stuff all along and just didn’t realize it. She also added that he WILL get it, she is 100% confident that he can master the skills.
So…not all roses…we wouldn’t have believed her if she had tried that on us anyway…but she listened to what we want for him educationally and she said she can definitely support that. Yay!
And when I got back to my office I had a message from the Assistant Director…we’ll have a meeting in two weeks to see what we can work out. I let her know that we feel like we’re pretty close which perked her up. I guess she was expecting someone unreasonable to call. I’m really glad I’ve been working on FRIENDLY thoughts these last few days. OH! And! It turns out our team leader IS available this summer depending on who asks *ahem*
I’m so glad things went well today. I hate going to evaluations for all the same reasons you do, so so happy that it was better than expected!!
so glad!!!
see we knew how smart he is Now everybody else will know and see it too
I can feel your excitement through the post! So happy for you guys, what amazing news! When you have kick-as parents, it isn’t a stretch that your child will be kick-ass too!