Marching Forward

As the time passes by and your college bound child is "hopefully" working well at school. I go with the philosophy "no word is good word", your focus goes on the second child. My second child, my son, also has learning disabilities. When he was a baby, his speech was delayed. I always attributed this to the fact that my daughter babbled and she spoke for him. One day a relative called out to my son and there was no response, so automatically we assumed he has some type of autism. Not knowing a lot of his family history, my son is adopted, I started to get worried and concerned. I brought him to doctors and they referred me to birth to 3. This is a wonderful organization that helps young children progress. They come to your home and help them with motor skills and verbalizing their needs. This helped my son, but he is such an independent soul. After this program, the school system took over, because now he would have an IEP, he was entered into the preschool program to help mainstream these children. This was another great program that I had no concept on. Until you have children with needs you have no idea the programs that are really out there. I wish I had known for my daughter. As my son grew this program also evaluated him. I know that they were so set on telling me he had alot of autistic tendencies. The real issue was that my son always had eye contact with you and paid attention to you. Many autistic children don't have eye contact with you and are in "their own" world. After pre-school and because he is a December baby, we held him back. Best thing I have ever done. Onward to IEP's and evaluations, psychological evaluations to diagnose his ADHD and executive function issues. Now to concentrate on the second child, with alot of luck the first will give me this time with him! Until next time.....