K-Fam's journey through My Father's World

• May. 25, 2009 - So Now What?

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So after this entire last year of wondering if my 5 year old son has autism, we finally got the results back from his evaluation. I received a phone call on Friday from our counselor at the Regional Center who read me the findings and the verdict was: He does not have autistic disorder so the Regional Center was closing his case and they will not be providing any services for us. I believe I failed to share here that my 20 month old was also evaluated at the Regional Center and her case was closed as well.

I know, I should be jumping up and down with joy, right? Well, obviously I am happy to hear that my children are not severe enough to warrant an "autism" diagnosis, but there's still something on my Mommy radar.

In my son's case, the psychologist did find that he has some language delays that put him in the "retarded" range and for that they suggested speech therapy and I believe they had planned on referring us to Children's Hospital for a speech evaluation. The funny thing is our less than friendly pediatrician had already referred him for speech and hearing evaluations so we've already got those under our belts and they've begun the paperwork. Plus I'm working on finding a more caring pediatrician.

The speech pathologist at the Children's Hospital Outpatient office gave us some wonderful tips on how to work with our son but she did let us know that it would be at least 6-8 weeks before we could be seen. It should work out nicely though because Dude will get out of school in two weeks, we'll have time for a short break and then he can start speech therapy at Children's Hospital over the summer months.

While I was very happy with Dude's latest speech eval, I was left a bit lost as to what to do to help him with his other seemingly autistic traits. I realize I'm no expert, but I know what I've seen, heard and read. I'm not the only one who suspected that my son might be on the spectrum. The school psychologist back in NV and his former teacher both thought so as well.

So what now?

Where do I find the proper help for my son?

Isn't it funny how God times things? ...

This last year, we spent a whole lot of time reviewing products for TOS and because of that and our move, we had to put aside our regular curriculum for a while. Technically we are "behind" for the year, whatever that means.lol. The review period is over and we picked back up studying missions and geography where we left off. So we're just now finishing up reading about George Muller in our study of My Father's World- ECC.

I've been deeply touched by the faith George Muller had to trust God for his needs when there was simply no way humanly possible to have these needs met. Like George Muller, I'm going to have to hand it all over and trust that God will provide healing for my children and the exact therapies, teachers and doctors they will need to help them function well in life.

I would greatly appreciate any and all prayers for my family.

About Me

This is my family's journey through homeschooling, using My Father's World curriculum. We spent the majority of last school year reviewing curriculum for TOS Homeschool Crew so that's why many of my blog entries are product reviews. We're now back on track and diving into MFW once again. My children are Ninja- 15: teenage black belt extrordinaire. Using MFW's Ancient History and LIterature; Tink- 11: sweet girl schooling with ADHD symptoms and dysgraphia (?). Using MFW's Exploring Countries and Cultures; The Dude-5: handsome little man with language delays/probably on the autism spectrum. He's no longer in preschool for speech therapy and special ed. Now using MFW K; and Baby Princess- 18 months: beautiful busy baby girl, possibly on the autism spectrum as well. Tagging along with The Dude and whatever else I think might interest her.

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