Fifth Grade Band Concert

Alvin had his first ever band concert tonight. He was so nervous in the weeks leading up to it, but he did great! While he chose percussion, they only learn notes and play the bells until later in the year.

Now we focus on Monday’s MRI and neurosurgical appointments. 

Pirate Day! Spirit Week at School

Today was Pirate Day at school, part of Spirit Week leading up to the Homecoming Game tomorrow.

Alvin's ETR results

UPDATE: He's also been diagnosed with childhood apraxia of speech. Basically, his brain cannot create the correct paths to turn thoughts in to words.

On November 14, we took Alvin to have an evaluation for the local special needs preschool. Today, we got the results of that evaluation.

In the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales, a standard score is a 97, though anything from 91-100 is considered 'average/normal'. Alvins scores are:

Communication:      74    Adaptive level: Moderately low
Daily Living Skills: 71    Adaptive level: Moderately low
Socialization:           63    Adaptive level: Low
Motor:                      65    Adaptive level: Low

Overall Composite: 65    Adaptive level: Low

So, as you can see, based on this alone, Alvin is severely behind what is considered 'normal' for his age group. Then, they evaluated his Pre-School Language skills.

Auditory Comprehension: he's equivalent to a 2 year, 8 month old child. So, he's exactly a year behind there. For Expressive Communication, he's the equivalent to a 1 year, 4 month old child. So, he's 2.5 years behind there. These two give him an overall equivalent to that of a 1 year, 11 month old child. So, Alvin is severely behind. He'll be starting his special needs pre-school tommorrow. So our hopes are high that with that, he will start to catch up to his peers, but we do realize that he'll likely never be 'average'.