EI is A-OK

Jack's assessment was 1 week ago. 3 girls from Northeast Arc came to the house and used the Battelle Developmental Inventory to evaluate Jack. They loved him from the second they walked in the door. He was his very happy go lucky self and was ready to dazzle them with his skills.

He was assessed on 5 different domains-- Adaptive, Personal-Social, Communication, Motor and Cognitive. An average score in any of the domains would fall between 85 and 115 and anything below a 77 automatically qualifies a child for services. Jack scored pretty high in Adaptive (ability to complete daily routines such as eating) and Motor. They were actually really impressed with his motor skills.. he is "raking" with his hands and fingers to obtain small objects. He is also already starting to work on transferring objects from one hand to other.

Jack scored 77 in communication and so he qualified to receive those services. They said it could take 3 to 4 weeks to hear back from them to set up a time for them to come back. They want him to start saying more consonant sounds.. however right after they left, he obviously started trying to say "dada"! They also want him to start calming down at the sound of a familiar voice.. rather than having to have to be picked up, held and rocked. Considering we couldn't let him cry for too long for the first few months of his life, this wasn't a surprising area he needed work on.

Dr. Ronai had told us to take whatever services they were willing to offer us.. why not? We want to give him every chance and every opportunity to grow, learn and be the best Jack he can be!