We went in for the second half of Josh's speech re-eval. Let me tell you, everything that should have thrown him into a total tizzy happened. The therapist was running 20 minutes behind to begin with. When we went back to the room, someone else was using our usual room so we had to change to a differnet one. I looked at our therapist and said "You mean we have to switch to THIS room on an eval day?" She wasn't too happy about it either. It was much larger, the blinds were open and causing a bad glare, there was a mirror, a microwave, a fridge, a fan - all HUGE distractions for him. And then to top it off there was this annoying little humming in the background the entire time. I'm not autistic and it was bothering me, so you can imaginewhat it did to Josh. Believe it or not, he did awesome!
The last time he was tested (in July) he only made it to question 43. We had to stop for the day at question 56 because we ran out of time, so already that is showing he has made wonderful progress. She actually has to continue the eval until he gets 5 consecutive questions wrong, and so far it hasn't happened. She thinks, looking ahead, that it won't be too much further before he does have to stop completely this time. I'm so proud of him!
He is having trouble with past tense words still, mainly those that actually change the word completely. For instance he does fine with past tense words such as smiling being changed to smiled but changing "the child is drawing a picture" to "The child drew a picture" is still not clicking for him. He does say "drawed" instead though. I asked about that part and the therapist said around 5 years is when they start to chage it and they give points on the test if they use any form of past tense, correct or not.
So, in the end, we are still not through. :lol She said that she feels he has age appropriate language skills now and that a lot of his problem stems from being easily distracted now. So, I'm not sure what this means for speech therapy at this point. We may get released after she scores the test next week, or it may be that she will have to keep him in a little longer because of the auditory skills being a little below the average still. She said the clinic's goal is to get each child to score an 80 or above on their raw score and within 6 months of their actual age before releasing them. I just don't know whether that means total, each section, or what, if that makes any sense whatsoever.
I have to say though, he cracks me up. They have had a major lack of boyish stickers lately, so he kept picking the biggest sticker he could and it was always a giant pink and blue sticker that said "Tuff Girl" on it. LOL Today though, they finally had a ton of choices for him - Tonka trucks, smiley faces, The Incredibles, Pooh...guess what stinker chose? Barbie! :rofl2
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