PT Update

The woman from Babynet came to our house yesterday for Harper's evaluation. Harper didn't even need to be there, she just asked me a bunch of questions. Most of them were really confusing-Does Harper pick up toys like this or like this? She would show me pictures but I couldn't even tell the difference between the pictures. She also had a hard time determining the cut off for a 9 month old, since the program goes up to 3 year olds. She asked some random questions like if you gave Harper a crayon would he color with it-no he would eat it, so why would I give him a crayon. She also asked if he could repeat nursery rhymes even though she already knew that he only says mama and dada. I guess she doesn't get too many babies-most of the kids in the program are in it for speech.

Well she called back today with his results and she recommended that he does have pt. She was concerned that he isn't crawling, can't pull up from sitting and can't sit from laying down. You have to test below in 2 categories and he only tested for one. The cut off was a 4 for gross motor skills and he scored a 4. Everything else he scored above. This means that we won't have a mediator for the program and will just have the physical therapist. We meet to discuss our goals in two weeks and then we can meet with the therapist. I honestly don't think that he needs it, we just need to work more on it. He has already been pulling up from sitting today. We will see what he can do by our goal meeting and decide then. She did give me a great hand out with some helpful games and activities for kids up to 5.