Update on Logan's Therapies

We had Logan's 1 year Early Intervention meeting the last week of May. We got together with our service coordinator and Logan's speech and occupational therapists (his developmental therapist could not make it) as well as a coordinator from our school district to speak to us about options after he ages out of Early Interventions when he turns 3 in October.

Since speech was our main concern I will start there. As of Logan's last speech evaluation he is 6 months behind of where he should be, and is catching up a little more each week. He has made tremendous strides in his speech in the past year and both his therapist and Matt and I are very happy with his progress.Logan is only delayed in two areas and the delays are I think around 23% according to the tool used to asses him, and to receive therapy through the Early Interventions program you have to be delayed 30% in one or more areas. Since he was previously in the program, his therapist is able to over-ride that rule so he can keep going until he ages out. We are very happy that he is pretty much all caught up now. He will continue to do speech until his birthday in October and at that point if his therapist feels he should continue he will be evaluated by the school district and if need be he will go to speech one or two times a week after he turns 3 through the Early Education program. We don't know if he will even need that at this point so it's something we will address as the time gets closer.

As far as occupational therapy goes, Logan has excelled and at this point his OT doesn't feel he needs to continue with OT. Logan has a few little things we can still work on, but he is no longer delayed enough to be receiving services technically. His current OT is taking a leave of absence starting this month, and a new OT should be taking over in the next weeks, and she will take a look at him as well, and it sounds like if anything he will go down to twice a month OT sessions. His sensory issues have really resolved and like all this therapists have said he is a new boy now.

We had a coordinator from the school district there as well to talk about the options for when he ages out of Early Interventions at his 3rd birthday. They do offer a preschool that would be five days a week but it is more for kids who need a lot of therapy, have autism/autism spectrum/neurological disorders, have physical disabilities, etc. As we talked during the meeting it sounded like if anything Logan might need more speech therapy and if that is what is needed he can do therapy through Early Education once a week. Everyone at the meeting thought that it will work to Logan's benefit that he won't start preschool until he us almost 4 because of when his birthday falls so we don't have any pressure to get him ready for preschool this coming fall. Logan will keep going to his Mother's Day Out program this fall, which has helped him tremendously and he is very happy there and we are happy with the program and he will continue to go to Gymboree as well which is also very good for him.

Logan's developmental therapist couldn't make the meeting and we hadn't had his evaluation done either at the time of meeting because Logan had been sick and then Memorial day was thrown in there, so he just had his yearly evaluation for developmental therapy two weeks ago and we will go over that once we get a copy, but looks like he will continue until his birthday, and we may talk about going down to twice a month like with occupational therapy.

Overall is was a very positive meeting and we are so proud of Logan and all he has accomplished in the past year.