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The purpose of this blog is to be a journal for my children and to help other parents who have been given a diagnosis of down syndrome. It is so upsetting to think that 90% of parents who find out their baby has down syndrome choose to terminate their pregnancy.

Many times as in our case we had no real knowledge or life experiences of what down syndrome was like. It was absolutely frightening to be completely in the dark. However, there were only a couple of days of grieving for the child we had envisioned in our minds. Once we started researching all of the resources available, talking with other parents of children with down syndrome and began bonding with our beautiful twins we were able to see that our twins were not all that different. They were both two beautiful gifts from god.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Lyla's Evaluation for Cognitive, Communication, Social, Physical

Lyla just had her one year evaluation on August 9th by her Occupational and Speech Therapist.

They evaluated her on a scale for Normal Development for a child. She was born exactly one month early and when that is adjusted she is considered 11 months.

Cognitive is 10 months
Communication is 11 months
Social-Emotional is 13 months
Physical is 11 months
Adaptive Behavior is 14 months

Her Theraptists wrote down her skills at 1 year old:
Curious
Happy Baby
Starting to move everywhere
Sitting
Pulling up to Stand
Dancing to music
Following simple commands
Making sounds
Eating solids
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  1. UnknownSeptember 20, 2010 at 4:02 PM

    Sounds like she's right on track! :) That's wonderful! :)God-Bless you all.
    Annalise

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