Today’s fact: Down syndrome is named for John Langdon Down, who first described the condition in 1866.
Daniel had his 6 month Early Intervention assessment on Wednesday. And if you’re thinking, “isn’t he 7 months old?” Yes. But now he’s been doing physical therapy for 6 months. We met with his therapist and our caseworker to go over the goals we originally set for him, and to set new goals. Here were the original goals:
~Holding his head up in different positions and at different angles
~Bringing his hands to midline
~Rolling over
~Focusing on and tracking things
He met all these goals. Actually, the therapist guessed he’d met them by about a month ago, but his assessment was so soon we didn’t bother to meet before that to set new ones. And our new goals (for the next six months):
~Getting into a sitting position (and sitting)
~Crawling
~Focusing on and playing with a book (he sort of does this already, but we want to see him turning pages and such)
~Using a pincher grasp
~Pulling to standing (this is our hopeful goal. It’s sort of expected that he’ll meet the other ones, this one is less sure.)
Also, we’re on for physical therapy once a week and we’ll be having a speech therapist out to assess him within the next month. After his speech assessment we’ll decide on a frequency for speech therapy. And that’s the latest on therapy! I know this post was super thrilling!
Daniel’s not so sure about the whole thing.
I totally love your blog. You inspire me in ways I can’t even say. Daniel is adorable and you are amazing. Not to idealize you, but I really love your spirit. Thank you for teaching me so much.
Thank you! You’re so sweet.
I try not to idealize our situation, but I really do feel like he’s a big blessing for us.
He’s so dang cute!
That was actually really interesting, even if you didn’t think it would be. 😉 I’m very interested in the kinds of goals in therapy for such a little baby. I bet he keeps doing great over the next six months!
It’s been interesting for me! When he started I seriously wondered what we’d do during therapy, so it’s been fun to find out.
Way to go, Daniel! Glad you met all of your therapy goals.
Daniel looks unsure as to how his schedule is going to handle so many appointments.
Right? Maybe he’s just unsure as to how *I’m* going to remember all the appointments. And he’s got a point there.
Aren’t those like regular baby goals?
Yes. But regular babies don’t need to see an OT every week to meet them. (He’s 1-2 months behind in terms of gross motor skills.)