The Assessment

Sadie had her assessment from the regional center on Monday. It was a very good experience. The nurse and therapist they sent were very pleasant and helpful. The therapist played with Sadie and did some simple tests while the nurse asked me questions about Sadie's behavior. In the end they both concluded that Sadie is extremely behind in receptive and expressive communication, gross motor(walking), and social and emotional skills. In Adaptive, Fine motor and cognitive she wasn't too behind in fact she was advanced in some things, so it was "scattered" as they say. The hardest part was them telling me that she had many red flags for autism. They assured me not to worry it wasn't a diagnosis but there is a lot of things she needs just incase. So they started today with therapy. The same therapist comes to my house twice a week to work with Sadie. Then we will be starting physical therapy soon once a week. Next month Sadie will be starting an autism program where someone will be coming to my home 9 hours a week, so everyday, to work on specific goals. I am just so grateful there is help like this out there! It is such a blessing, this whole program is at no cost. I just feel like sharing all this because if someone didn't share there experience with me I would not know what to do and may have wasted more precious time. I'm trying to stay very positive, but I do have to be prepared that it will take at least a couple years of this to catch her up and depending on her diagnosis it could be a life long process. Every time  we look at Sadie we feel so blessed to have her sweet spirit in or family. Micah and I would do anything in the world for her and now we feel like we are actually doing something to help her be able to learn, grow and understand better and that feels like such a relief!