Intake evaluations

Yesterday, a woman came to our house to start the evaluation process for Ryder and speech. In the course of an hour, we sat in his room and played with dinosaurs, Legos, cars, and crayons. At one point he just sat next to me and colored, all while we did a large intake questionnaire on his overall development. He did so good! So the next step is to have a speech therapist come to our house, probably next week, to do an indepth speech evaluation to see what Ryder's specific needs are and to see how "severe his delay is", which I am not going to lie, sounded intense. But we are happy to have the process started and to see how comfortable he was with the initial session. I was so nervous for how the whole thing was going to go, and really, it couldn't have gone better. Ryder was relaxed, he was not shy of the woman and I could tell he felt so comfortable being in his own space. We are interested to see what comes next for us in this process, and we will keep you posted. Thank you for your words of encouragement. What amazing family and friends we have!