On Thursday morning, Anna was evaluated for speech therapy. A bubbly, enthusiastic speech therapist came to our home and tested Anna in a variety of areas from gross and fine motor skills, cognitive abilities, language abilities, social/emotional and adaptive skills.
In gross and fine motor skills, she scored in the 63rd percentile which, along with these pictures, proves my claim that Anna is one active little girl. Not surprisingly, she is a little below average in other areas, but she is one bright little girl and I think she will catch up in cognitive and adaptive areas. Also not surprisingly, she scored below 1 percentile in expressive language.
While Tony and I see vast improvement over the last several weeks (she can say "night night" very clearly now and you can almost understand "banana"), she is obviously very delayed in her speech. She still calls Tony "mama" and she calls Ryan "eye-aaa".
The good news is the speech therapist said she thought Anna would do really well with speech therapy. Next step is a medical evaluation next week and then hopefully we'll get on the speech therapy schedule and maybe Anna will start calling Tony "daddy" soon.
My hope is that someday soon, Anna can talk as well as she and her brother climb. Because 63rd percentile seems like a pretty good place to me.
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