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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I remember feeling exactly the same when they told me my then 2.5 year old DD would be eligible for services.
Partially relieved, just as you were that my concerns were validated and I now had a professional team to turn to rather than the whirring, anxious thoughts and questions in my own head and Dr. Google. At the same time, my heart sank a bit and in a way I was surprised that they didn't just tell me I was overreacting or that her issues were within the normal range. Your DS is so young and it is fabulous that you are getting connected to services and professional guidance so early. Kudos to you - as hard as the "not knowing" is to live and deal with, you can take comfort that you are doing everything right, everything you can for your bit in getting the ball rolling and the help he needs. You are a good mama.
My DD is now 7 and has come so far - partially due to services, and partially due to maturity. But I know what you mean about "awareness" - other children could hear my words and if could see on their face that they were taking them in, or processing them. With my DD the words never seemed to penetrate, with the exception of very concrete, basic things. But she has grown by leaps and bounds, and your DS will too.[/quote]

Thank you, PP, for both the understanding and the feedback.  I am so appreciative that there are people here who "get it" in terms of the anxious thoughts, the conflicting feelings, and the desire to get things going to address issues.

I am glad to hear that both services and just maturing has helped your DD.  I hope so much that the services and learning things that I can do at home with DS will help.  What delays did your DD have at 2.5, and how does that translate (or not) into delays or diagnoses now at 7?  Sorry if those questions aren't phrased properly... I'm just interested in hearing about the experience of someone who started with delays and what things looked like for them 5 years later.
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Her expressive language was okay (though very basic and nowhere near girls in her class) but she didn't seem to be understanding what others would say to her, unless it was very simple and concrete. To learn something new she needed one-on-one instruction with lots of examples and visual cues, and so many things that other kids just kind of learned intuitively really needed to be spelled out for her. It took a long time for her conversational speech to flow and she seemed a lot more babyish than her peers. She had some difficulty connecting socially but we realized this was primarily rooted in her slow language processing because as her expressive and receptive speech improved, so did her ability to make and have friends. Today she is in first grade with an IEP in a mainstream class and with the supports in place (visual cues, sitting near teacher, extra time to complete tasks, etc) she has been able to keep up with the curriculum and is doing very well.
Back in the beginning if the process I could not imagine how she would learn to read, or how to do math problems, etc because it was do hard for her to process new and novel information and anything abstract, but I have learned that what seems difficult for her one year is often very manageable and even easy for her the next. So even if your son does have delays, it doesn't mean he won't outgrow them or do overcome them with the proper support.
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