Babies & Speech
Posted
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 10:53 PM
My doctor said that they could set us up with an appointment with a speech pathologist and I didn't really say no, but I'm not 100% into it. Well, they called and left a message today saying that the hospital would call ME and set up an appointment. This made me kind of happy because that means I could tell them directly I no longer wanted an appointment. But before I do that, I decided to discuss with Andy why I'm not so keen on this appointment.
First of all, neither of us are worried about Jax's speech development anymore. Yes there were a few weeks where I totally freaked out about it, but after speaking to several people (including one of Andy's aunts who is a speech pathologist), our fears were reassured and I haven't worried about it since. Second of all, Jax understands everything that WE are saying to HIM and he follows directions and all that good stuff. When you are reading to him and ask him to point out certain objects, he does it. The only place he has a little difficulty is with colors. But he can point to red and blue just fine, the rest are kind of hit and miss. Thirdly, I know that every child develops at his own pace. Jax didn't start really walking 'til he was 15 months or so. He's hit all of his milestones a little later.
*sigh* The biggest reason I don't want to set up this appointment is because I'm really worried that they won't tell us anything new and then charge us $500 for the appointment. Back when Jax was having respiratory problems, I thought the doctors were just keeping us in the hospital extra days to charge us more money. While I have absoluely no proof, I just had a feeling that they didn't understand we knew how to run a nebulizer.
Andy thinks that I should call them and ask them a few questions about Jax's development. That's fine and everything, but I suspect they'll tell me that they really need me to bring Jax in for an evaluation. Call me pessimistic, but that's how I feel. So I don't know.
Oh, and the other thing is that I'm sure the person who will be evaluting Jax will be the same lady who evaluated him at daycare. You know, when they did this at daycare, I don't recall them telling me I should be there to help Jax feel more comfortable. So when they did evaluate him, he didn't say anything because he was too timid. But the lady wrote a very concerned note to us about how Jax isn't talking and he should be talking and interracting. Well gee, maybe if one of us were THERE he would have felt more at ease. *sigh*