Cobb County Schools Comes Through

Erin went for an IEP meeting with Cobb County Schools two weeks ago.  They went over Shannon's evaluation and they decided that she qualifies for speech therapy through the school district.

So Shannon will get picked up for daycare on Fridays, taken to therapy, and then brought back to daycare when they are finished.  All this and it is free!!!  Great news for us.  

So now she will go to Cobb therapy on Fridays and private therapy on Saturdays.

A positive sign of her speech development came in the way of ice cream.  Before Shannon couldn't move her tongue around the outside of her mouth.  She couldn't stick it out straight and when she did stick it out it would just go to the side.  They called it lazy tongue.  

We went to Chick-fil-A for ice cream the other night.  Shannon got it all over her lips and she stuck her tongue out and licked it all off in a circular motion.  A great sign that she is getting more control of her tongue and that her speech patterns will begin to take off.

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I've totally been slacking on the blog.  I blame Facebook.  Updating my status was taking over for my blog.  I'm sorry.  I'll be better.

Things here are going well.  Shannon got into speech therapy and has been doing it for a few weeks now.  Only bad thing is that it is on a Saturday.  It is at a private therapy place.  On Thursday we find out if Shannon qualifies for aid through Cobb County School District.  Since Erin works for CCSD, our chances should be pretty good.

The family got a MacBook Air as a gift from my parents.  Totally unexpected.  We were expecting to get the used PC laptop that they got an Air of their own to replace.  This computer is so thin it is amazing.  Only complaint so far is that it only comes with an 80 gig hard drive.    

Not only did we upgrade to a MAC, but I also hooked up a wireless router for the house.  Combined with the MacBook it has already changed our lives.   Shannon spends much more time on the computer now and it is great to be able to be on the computer anywhere in the house.  We haven't had a single problem yet.