Saturday, August 8, 2009

No sleep for the sleepy


Looks comfy huh? Every inch of his face was covered in 'electrodes' and he had a total of four things up his nose. "Sos now you want he should sleep? OK Boss." I think he got about 3 hours but apparently that was enough to get the information they needed. We won't know any results until our appointments on Wednesday and Thursday. He will also be getting a CT scan so we can know exactly how things are formed in that little head of his, an eye doctor will be ruling out any eye problems and another ENT that specializes in air ways will be checking out the size of his... well, air ways.

I found some laws that The Board of Education wrote to protect children with disabilities called the IDEA Act. One of these laws allowes Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) to budget for helping families with "assistive technology devices" like a BAHA. This just might help us, so keep your fingers crossed. They came out to determine his needs and did a little evaluation on him. Of course because of his deafness he qualified but surprisingly they found he tested on a cognitive and social level as a 4 month old, in spite of not hearing. Ben and I said early on that this kid was going to be our little genius. No pressure or anything.

1 comment:

  1. Hi Sweet Ones, This is great and you are wonderful for sharing this with us. It helps us know, without always having to ask, how our little angel is doing and how his wonderful parents are holding up. It also gives us specifics to pray for. Everything sounds encouraging. Garrett is a very lucky little boy to have ya'll for parents and such great grandparents. Love you, Cathey Williams

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