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Aug. 31st, 2011 01:04 pmOne of the reasons that I wanted to put Elise in preschool is because I need objective feedback on whether there is anything I should be noticing about her development. Which is in stark contrast to how little I wanted to hear strangers' opinions on my older four kids' development ;) But with Elise, it's different, and an ER doctor once caught me totally off guard telling me she only looked in one direction (this was in infancy). I realized after that, that he was totally right, and I had completely never noticed it. And we did therapies and got it worked out, but I always wondered if I would have "seen" that myself eventually or what.
Her preschool in particular does some really comprehensive developmental assessments that sounded great to me, twice during the year.
Anyway today one of her teachers pulled me aside at dismissal to tell me they've noticed she "kind of walks sideways". At first I asked if this was only inside, since their classroom is a little cramped when they do circle time and she tries to shimmy around, but she said no, it's totally outside too, and both teachers have spotted it. So, I told her about Elise's history (the preschool director knows all about it, and she is there all the time and they only have two classes, but the teachers didn't know, which I kind of liked in a way). She was really surprised, went on about how Elise was writing letters on the chalkboard and finger painted an actual thing and loves playing "Duck, duck, goose" and is really social, etc.
We do a lot of walking but I'm next to her with a whole group of kids....I just have to try to make an effort to see her walking from a little ways away from me and try to observe what they're talking about, I guess. She goes to the doctor on the 13th and he's a very neuro-experienced ped so I'll talk to him about whether he thinks we should go back to the neuro and what I could be doing.
I'd been planning to ask him about how extremely right handed she is (I recently noticed she'll sometimes tuck something in her right hand into the crook of her arm to have it free for grabbing when you go to hand her something, even though her left hand is empty). It makes a lot of sense for her to favor her right side, since her left hemisphere has way more good tissue.
We'll see I guess....
Alright I have a lot of homework to do, for three classes, so...I guess I should get off the internet, now....right? :p
Her preschool in particular does some really comprehensive developmental assessments that sounded great to me, twice during the year.
Anyway today one of her teachers pulled me aside at dismissal to tell me they've noticed she "kind of walks sideways". At first I asked if this was only inside, since their classroom is a little cramped when they do circle time and she tries to shimmy around, but she said no, it's totally outside too, and both teachers have spotted it. So, I told her about Elise's history (the preschool director knows all about it, and she is there all the time and they only have two classes, but the teachers didn't know, which I kind of liked in a way). She was really surprised, went on about how Elise was writing letters on the chalkboard and finger painted an actual thing and loves playing "Duck, duck, goose" and is really social, etc.
We do a lot of walking but I'm next to her with a whole group of kids....I just have to try to make an effort to see her walking from a little ways away from me and try to observe what they're talking about, I guess. She goes to the doctor on the 13th and he's a very neuro-experienced ped so I'll talk to him about whether he thinks we should go back to the neuro and what I could be doing.
I'd been planning to ask him about how extremely right handed she is (I recently noticed she'll sometimes tuck something in her right hand into the crook of her arm to have it free for grabbing when you go to hand her something, even though her left hand is empty). It makes a lot of sense for her to favor her right side, since her left hemisphere has way more good tissue.
We'll see I guess....
Alright I have a lot of homework to do, for three classes, so...I guess I should get off the internet, now....right? :p
