Update on todays session with devin

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Today we had early steps intervention team, myself and Devin. The

therapist said that he will be going to the local childrens hospital

for a complete a intrusive speech evalulation specifically geared

towards evaluating apraxia... I thought a speech eval. was all the

same. She said that she could diagnose him with it but because he only

say a couple words she is not comfortable in diagnosing him but they

would be more qualified to do so... The way she made it sound was that

he had to say alot more than what he was saying to be properly

diagnosed. She also mentioned late talking which I am definatly hoping

that is all it is. But she says that not to sit back and relax yet...

That it does not hurt to treat it as apraxia. She also said that he

could just simply be a lazy talker... So that just made the confusion

even worse..... YEAH... Just what I needed....... Has that been

experiances that yall have run into that they have said your child

needs to say more before they can be diagnosed with anything? I am just

thinking to myself that is why we are here. Because he is not

talking..... HMMMMMM go figure..... Sorry just needed to vent a little

bit sorry everyone....