In a nutshell...: To come...

Bryant will be celebrating his one year anniversary with Babies Can't Wait at the end of July. I guess I can believe it has been a year. He has come such a long way...since he was practically mute when he started speech therapy with BCW. We had a meeting yesterday to discuss his progress since Nov. He met...well I should say, exceeded, all of his goals. Yay for B!!!

We are on the home stretch with BCW. Their services end on his third birthday, so they have started the process to "transition" him to the Cobb County School system. Upon evaluation, it will be determined if he "qualifies" for speech or other services. Someone from Cobb County will be contacting us to set up a time for his evaluation. They will evaluate him on all development milestones and depending how he scores we will then understand what services are available to him through the school system, if any. Because he receives Occupational Therapy privately that will be considered in his evaluation. They will be determining if he qualifies for special education. If he does then he will receive therapy services through the school system beginning on his third birthday. I honestly do not know what all of this amounts too until he is evaluated. Our assumption is he will qualify for speech services, because of his apraxia of speech, but not sure about OT. We have been told it is a lot harder to qualify for services in the school system than it was to get into BCW. Bryant must show a significant delay in two or more areas of development; which is how he ended up in BCW to start, so we shall see the difference in the school systems evaluation structure. Some other things to note...

We have an appointment with a developmental pediatrician in Aug. Aug! I know, there are only so many here in ATL. I finally got through and got the first available appt. This will be good for us because they will be able to help us understand B and his development going forward, much more than his regular pediatrician.

We are also on a waiting list to see a Pediatric Neurologist. Scary, right? I'm not scared. They do not have any appointments available until September...and even then I don't know if we will get a spot. I mention this because while Bryant is making great strides with his occupational therapy, Brittany is still concerned with his nystagmus and wants to rule out any neurological issue. Again, I'm not scared. B is fine. It will be good to hear the opinion of the developmental pediatrician first and we may not have to see the neurologist. It might just be that we see an ophthalmologist, again. We shall see.

I bring this up to everyone because it is on my mind and we would of course appreciate your prayers. We want what is best for B and we know that everything will work out according to Gods plan. He is one unique kid and we are so thankful for him and love him so very much.

Like mother, like son...picking the marshmallows out of the lucky charms...