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[quote=Anonymous]In light of the posting about following up, which I totally appreciate, I am the OP following up on our experience getting evaluated in Arlington County for the Child Find program.  To summarize how we got to this point, we took the medical route to getting a diagnoses for our DC based on speech delays identified by our ped during the 18-month appt.  That resulted in month after month of endless appointments and tests with neurologist, developmental ped, audologist, orthoped, and another specialist I can't even recall.  During that process, one of the med folks advised us to get an eval via our county's early intervention program, which we did.  The early intervention eval noted suspected SPD with speech and motor delays.  Received ST and OT.  DC is now turning 3 soon, will "gradulate" from the early intervention program, so the folks involved recommended getting an eval for Child Find services.  The first Child Find appt involved meeting with three professionals at Arlington County Public Schools for an initial determination about what the evaluation should cover.  Our DC attended that meeting.  The result was a recommendation to evaluate for everything except a psych eval, so the evaluators consisted of general developmental, speech/language, and an occupational therapist.  The eval took about 2 hours and entailed trying to have DC perform directed tasks, observation of DC while she explored the room and did self-directed tasks, and discussions with me.  I was in the room w/DC at all times and they never separated us for any part of the eval.  DC was extremely shy and unwilling to perform any of the directed tasks but was happy to explore the room on her own and do some self-directed tasks with toys that interested her.  DC barely spoke during the entire eval.  The next meeting was the eligibility meeting.  DC did not attend but the teacher who was responsible for the developmental evaluation was there, as well as a speech therapist (but not the one who conducted the eval) and the program director.  The eligibility meeting involved discussing the "report" that was prepared after the evaluation.  I had requested a copy of the report in advance and got it about two days before the eligibility meeting.  I think I'm running out of space so will continue this in following post ....[/quote]

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