Our visit to Kennedy Krieger today was pretty productive. The SLP we met with, Nancy, was really helpful and had some good things to say about our Little Man. That being said however, we still came away with a new communication "device", a Flip-N-Talk. This "instrument" is pretty rudimentary yet very user friendly and highly adaptable. So really, I can't complain.
Except I feel like with every super-duper-sub-sub-specialist appointment we go to, I keep waiting for someone to tell me that we don't actually need to be there. Any moment now I expect any one of the doctors or therapists to tell us that this is all over kill, that he doesn't really need all this hoopla (that's a technical term) and that his delays are exaggerated by my over stimulated parental senses. I keep waiting for the "Oh wait, this is why he has global developmental delays" statement and someone to flip a switch or give us a prescription that magically activates all that Jackson is delayed in. Kind of like when you're having computer problems at work and you finally give in and call the help desk, only to have the technician (a term loosely used mind you) show up and reboot the computer, at which point you discover that there isn't anything wrong with it at all. I keep thinking that someone will reboot Jack and everything will be fine.
Don't worry, I do realize that's not how it is going to work. And that work is exactly what we have ahead of us. Lots and lots of work.
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