Atypical Tuesday

       Last week, Rowan's pre-primary teacher told me that she feels she is delayed in speech, and also possibly in some other developmental ways.  I do understand some people have a difficult time understanding Rowan talk.  For some ungodly reason, she fell in love with this HUGE binky by Playtex that has an index finger-sized nipple on it.  She LOVED them.  They had a ring shaped handle on them and she would take 3 or 4 of them and loop them on a few fingers of her right hand and alternate the bink she sucked on.  Anyhow, what ended up happening is that they gave her a terribly malformed palate.  The good thing?  The Easter Bunny took her binkys this past Easter; secondly, her palate is quite maleable, and her speech is improving (as well as the shape of her mouth).  I regret giving her that type of binky.  Her last pre-primary teacher retired after this past school year.  Boy, did she LOVE Rowan...she took her under her wing and saw something special in her.  This teacher, to me, just seems to find her a nuisance.  Rowan does not like to play in the girl group, nor the boy group.  She is completely at peace just working or playing independantly. 

     Anyway, she had her appt today with our Nurse Practitioner and I filled out some Autism questionaires, have to make an appt with the Intermediate Unit of the county for a behavioral evaluation, and also have to make an appt with our local University for a speech evaluation.  Lots of work, but hopefully we'll find out some answers!