Corbin's evaluation today..

So Corbin had his early intervention specialist come over to evaluate him today. I was almost embarrassed to have her come over because he is really starting to improve. For the past few weeks, I've really been working with him and he's just grown in so many ways. But the pediatrician recommended it and it was really good to know for sure. She did a small evaluation over the phone about 3 wks ago and he scored pretty low, so she just knew he was going to qualify and in the end didn't. He is basically speaking at an 18 month old level and his motor skills were much more advanced for his age (which I knew already..can't wait to get that boy in sports). She only got through half of the list and basically said she didn't need to waste our time anymore since he will not qualify for anything. I really could have lied and told her he couldn't do certain things, but I really wanted an accurate diagnosis and plus, I know of so many kids who really do need the help and I didn't think it would be fair to add his name to the already long list of kids. If he needed the help, we would have gladly taken it, but he just doesn't. If she asked me if he could do something, I had him demonstrate it for her instead of just saying no he can't. Honestly, I think he would have scored a much lower score and qualified if I were to have done it that way, but I just couldn't do that. So for his speech, he scored a 25% and he needed at least a 50% or higher to even qualify. So all in all, we are super pleased that he is doing really well. We can just move on from here. I will continue to work with him (which can't help) to see if he can't keep progressing to eventually be at his age level for speech.