This is Mena playing in her new sandbox in the backyard after the physical therapist had left this morning. The PT did some standardized tests with Mena and determined that her Gross Motor, Fine Motor, Problem Solving, and Personal-Social are all above the 18 month age expectations. The testing confirmed that Mena's communication/language is behind for her age but these tests did not tell us how far behind. We will see the physical therapist in a month and we'll continue to see the language teacher weekly.
Gene and I talked about how different the opinions are between what the pediatrician was saying at her 18 month check up and what the physical therapist was saying this morning. Gene and I feel the physical therapist using standardized testing in our home was probably more accurate than the pediatrician just taking 15 minutes to observe her in the exam room. The pediatrician was talking off the top of his head whereas the physical therapist was able to give us documentation to show why she placed her where she did on the developmental charts, so that seems more valuable of an opinion to us.
Yea, Mena has come so far in the time I've been home with her!
Update: Gene and I went back through our copies of the standardized tests previously done on Mena. By reanswering the questions we were able to determine that Mena has jumped 40 points since January. She was below the 12 month mark in January and is now between 12 and 14 months.
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