We had a meeting with Liam's Child Find specialists today. We got a report on his "performance age level/age range" for a variety of areas. While the numbers were kind of scary, the specialists reassured us that he knows a lot more than he shows us so the numbers aren't really accurate. So for instance, his cognitive age equivalent is 2.7 even though he's 3 years and 8 months old. His communication age equivalent is 2.1, his social/emotional is 1.8, his adaptive (having to do with self-help like dressing, eating, etc.) is 2.5, his fine motor is 2.2 and his gross motor is 2.2. So this explains a lot! It explains why he gets so frustrated because he is super smart but isn't able to express everything he knows. It also means that since he is more than 25% behind, he gets to continue services. He will have different specialists during the summer and depending on how he's doing at the beginning of the school year, they may place him in a preschool environment with other kids for 2-5 days a week to improve these scores- we'll see!
This is what Malia was doing while we were going through all the information:
When we got home, we took naps and then Malia and I headed out to meet Amy, Evie, Annie and Ashley for a playdate at Kinder Farm Park. Zachary sent me this picture of Liam- this is closest we're going to get to him using the potty for a while I'm afraid.
I had so much fun getting to spend one-on-one time with Miss Malia. She loved the animals- she talked to this chicken:
She actually put her hand through the fence and touched these pigs:
Saw this on facebook and loved it:
So we took Liam's door knob off and put it back on with the lock on the outside because nothing else is working. I forgot to lock it after bringing him a snack so this is what we found when we came upstairs to go to bed:
