New Experience at ST conference
At Zora’s conference I saw something I have never seen before in the stack of papers and testing. She is actually improving, as in moving to a higher level of functioning on her speech abilities. I am accustomed to making sure they are staying on their own unique learning curves (that they are gaining skills at a steady rate, trying not to stress that they aren’t following the ‘norms’), and after years of being used to seeing scores that tended to follow the same path, it was almost weird to see results that changed the severity level.
Granted, most parents probably aren’t tempted to start dancing when they see “Low Moderate” functioning, but I sure as heck was. She is pulling herself higher, and I am SO proud of her. This is what Early Intervention can do for Phonological delays (totally different set of issues than the Autism I am accustomed to dealing with. Ironically, Zane scored at and above average for a lot of the phonological stuff that Zora struggles with so much). 
(blue was a year ago, brown is current tests. It is a test where they evaluate how she pronounces words.)
Between the two kids, I am getting quite the education in communication disorders and speech therapy. lol
