Leif has not progressed very much on his speech, he can talk and he does say sentiences but not English. It has not been a huge concern but we did not want him to be held back so Aleece and I decided that a call to the school district was in order.
The school district did say that it is not uncommon for someone Leif’s age to not talk much but he should be progressing and they scheduled a evaluation. In reality it was like 4 evaluations, they come out to the house 4 different times and gave mounds of paperwork to fill out. On Monday March 17 we had the case worker, speech therapist, and teacher come to the house. Leif did meet the criteria to be eligible for early developmental classes. He scored basically normal in everything except speech and cognitive abilities. The cognitive score was low probably because he had a hard time understanding what the teacher wanted him to do. The evaluator did make a comment that it was good that Leif could get us to understand him in other non-verbal ways and that shows that his cognitive score was most likely hampered by his inability to understand language.
So the short of it is that on April 14 Leif will start school. He will have to get a little backpack and will be riding the bus to school on Mondays and Fridays for 2.5 hours in the afternoon. He will attend classes for a year then go through re-evaluation to see if he needs more. This should be fun, I will post 1st day-of-school pictures as soon as I get them.