Good News

So, today I spoke with Hayden's Early Steps coordinator about him going in front of the developmental board for a full evaluation and they gave me the green light. Hayden gets dropped by them on Aug 22, but they are keeping his case open until Aug 26 so that he can go through the testing. I am so happy! He will be seen by a child psychologist, a develpmental delay pediatrician, a behavioral specialist, a speech therapist, and an occupational therapist. This is monumental because it could mean some special funding for him to get certain types of therapies not offered to the normal child. It just so happens it is on the second day of school so he may be happy about that. I have a sneaky feeling he won't like being away from me for the first month or so.

We are also getting a CARD assessment done since the neurologist we seen (who is new to the area) didn't offer any suggestions or testing for him after saying Hayden didn't have Autism. Well, I agree that Hayden has tendancies, but is not autistic. If you read about Sensory processing disorder and tactile defensiveness all of the "tendancies" of autism are listed as normal behaviors for children with SPD and Tactile Defensiveness. We will see what comes of it. I am just so excited to actually have gotten in front of this board of specialists with him. They only see 3 children a month and not every child gets a green light to go to the meeting/evaluation. I am jumping for joy! Something good just has to come of this!