The Jones Girls

Yesterday I had a meeting to go over the results of the evaluations for Amanda and Maryssa with Ronita Van Vliet, Mrs Crabtree, the school psychologist Wendy Myers, Amanda’s caseworker for Early Start Services-Laura Beech and Maryssa’s case worker for her early intervention services-Melanie Bakken.

The results were that Amanda averaged 3.3-3.7   years developmentally.  She does not need to attend not qualifies for special education   The school district and Early Start wanted to do a global evaluation on her because of her disability of her club radial hand.  No concerns academically or developmentally.   Just continued OT for her right hand and arm.

Maryssa’s results were 2.1-2.4 years developmentally with a delay in receptive language.  Her expressive language has been catching up and I contribute my hard work with Maryssa and Maryssa currently receiving speech therapty once a week at the house.  Maryssa will continue to receive speech therapy twice a week for 3 minutes each session at Jordan Elementary School.     Maryssa did not qualify for Ronita Van Vliet’s special education class that Savannah had been attending these past 2 years.    Maryssa would have needed to be delayed in more than one year of just receptive language.    So I guess this is good news for Maryssa!!  Yay!! 

So, tomorrow I will confirm registration for the triplets to attend preschool together at Presbyterrian Hills Preschool near our house.   They will go Tuesday and Thursday mornings beginning in the Fall.

I took Amanda and Maryssa to the Public Preschool to be evaluated on Thursday May 28th.  

Since Amanda is being followed by the school district as a possible special needs due to her disability with her right arm, they want to do a global evaluation, academically and physically.   So Thursday we had it done.   She was tested at a 3-1/2 to 4 year old level!!  The preschool teachers and the school psychologist said they have never used the some of the pages of the evaluations for a 2 year old before and were amazed.  Way to go Amanda!!  So she will not need speech therapy or Special Ed Kindergarten.

Maryssa got evaluated because she currently receives speech therapy once a week and the school district wanted to see if Maryssa would benefit from the Public Preschool that would offer her speech therapy.  She tested much lower than Amanda in terms of receptive language which is processing and understanding language.   She tested a little bit better in her expressive language than receptive language.  Expressive language is how she communicates and talks.     I am hoping she will receive speech therapy at the preschool because I think she will benefit greatly from it over a traditional preschool because of the smaller classroom size vs. a larger classroom size in a traditional preschool.   Maryssa is such an adorable and darling sweetheart.  She is just my precious!!

We have a follow up appointment on the results of their evaluations on June 10th.