My Goodnes! Poor Hamish. That is absolutely terrible! Will he end up with long term scarring?

So EI lady came over, and I could tell that she looked scared to talk to me. She then began to explain the PEP III test that J completed to me. Basically it is a clinical test that has to be done within 1.5 hours regardless of if the child can sit through it or not. Then you get a age in months for each area at the end. J's all were quite low, and well under his age, which upset me no end. Not that it was the result, but that it was so insensitive to just put it in the post.

Well it turns out that you lose 6 months off your age for each task you fail - J flat out refused to do a lot of the assessment even though it is stuff that he can do, so it was a fail. For example he lost 12 months off Gross motor as he has not shown preference for left or right hand and he wouldn't swing a ball around for her.

I am not saying that he isn't lagging in some areas's but he is def as not far behind as the test indicates. He has behaviour/anxiety probs, so of course he was never going to complete the tasks set in a clinical setting. Although in regard to the behaviour scale, he actually sits on the Lower side of normal. So there is work that needs to be done, but he is going better than first thought. He is also not on the spectrum, so again I feel funny posting in here, but I think with his behaviour/anxiety issues, if you guys don't mind I would love to be able to keep posting.

It was also clear that he prefers to learn through technology such as computers and ipad's etc. EI is going to put in an application to try and get him an ipod touch. They have said that he may be eligiable for an aid at kindy next year as he has defecits in 2 areas (behaviour and speech) so although technically I doesn't really need one, they may be able to get one which would be great as he would get that extra attention. I now have an interview with the kindy on the 14th as well as a different worker from EI so that will be good.

I have decided I am not going to put in a formal complaint, because I have to keep working with these people and I want it to be as postive as possible.

On a +++ note - we went to a 4th birthday party today, as he was awesome. So well behaved. Not one incident.