First day of school!

About two weeks ago Savannah had another speech evaluation. They determined her receptive speech is on track for her age. Receptive meaning she understands what we are saying to her. Unfortunately, her expressive language skills were assessed at a six to nine month level. She still can't make "ba" or "da" sounds and she has very few 2 word phrases (my favorite is a sarcastic "oh, mommy!"). So we were offered two choices. Either she could have speech therapist come to our house and work one on one or attend classes with other children. We thought it would be a great experience for her to have time with other children in her age range. I also think she might learn from being around the other children too.

So this week she attended her first class. Her classes are now on Mondays and Wednesdays for 2 hours a day at a local elementary school. She is in a class with a total of eight students, all with varying degrees of mental and physical disabilities. I stayed with her for a few minutes on the playground and then took a quick tour of the classroom. The teacher offered to let me stay if would help Sav adjust to the first day. I was confident that she would do just fine and decided to leave.

I came back an hour and half later. I met with the teacher who told me Sav did great and didn't even care that I was gone! She did well with the other students and even enjoyed a snack while there. So now that she did great on her 1st day of class she is being rewarded with her first week long break for Thanksgiving!