Yesterday, we had our final meeting with the Early Intervention (EI) evaluation and placement team. They recommended that Aerin meet with a developmental interventionist twice a week, and a speech therapist twice a month. I became rather upset after this meeting. Not because they were saying Aerin is delayed and needs therapy (I have accepted this after the first meeting), but because their evaluation seemed inaccurate after further examination. When I looked over the initial evaluation carefully (I hadn't seen the scores they had assigned for each skill, and didn't receive a copy of the full evaluation until last week), I noticed that they had scored Aerin lower than they should have. Now, I'm sure some of you are wondering if I'm...
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