Worried again

[Jac]

I really urge you to get them both checked. Early intervention has the best outcomes for children (so the sooner they are seen the more likely they will come along in leaps and bounds). You might only have to try a few small activites at home that will make a world of difference to their development.

[Trillian]

Antheia, stop dilly-dallying and just get them BOTH checked out NOW, or at least get their name on the list or otherwise we will see another thread in six mths time about how they still haven't progressed and you are still worried about them. By not doing anything about this you do run the risk of it getting to the stage where any early intervention is going to be more intensive than it would be if you catch the problems now.

Paige is only 6mths older than Lily and we have just had her referral sent off via the preschool she goes to. It was a problem we were aware the whole time, but we allowed for her either just being a bit slower than the older kids, and it just being age-appropriate issues. Her teacher has been watching her over the course of this term to see if there is any improvement (and between enrollement in october last year to now, there has been a huge improvement, but still not enough kwim?) and yesterday after speaking with her teacher we decided to get the wheels in motion NOW, instead of waiting another 6mths to see if there was any improvement before acting on it because if we did that, that's another 6mths of waiting when we could have been doing something about it.

And honestly Antheia, even if money is tight, you can still always save up to go and see a private one while you are waiting to see the public one and then claim it back from medicare - that way you can have the ball rolling.

Either way Antheia, I think you are doing them a huge disservice by waiting around. You've had an early childhood teacher and a speech pathologist come in here and give you their thoughts and if that isn't enough to spur you into action then nothing will.