Jimmo's Six Month Review

Today was little man's six month review with the Early Intervention Program. A little background on what this is......the Early Intervention Program is a service required by every county which provides therapies for infants and toddlers with disabilities. This Early Intervention Program discontinues when the child turns three and the next step is a program called Child Find. Each year there is an annual review and then a 6 month review in between with all the childs therapists together in one room. We review the past goals and make new ones when applicable. Thru this program, Jimmo has a physical therapist, an occupational therapist and an educational specialist. He gets speech therapy thru a private organization.

Today Jimmo is exactly 2 years and 4 months old. We're very proud of his progress. Obviously he progresses on his time, but each milestone brings such joy to us! Here are a few of the milestones we were able to check off today. As proud parents - we just wanted to share.

• Ability to place objects in a container and dump them


• Understands 5 interactive songs and the actions that accompany them (ex. Itsy Bitsy Spider)


• Can choose needs from pictures


• Uses both hands at midline to play with toys and objects


• Plays with toys correctly and purposely - this was huge for us!


• Pushes cars/trucks around a room with purpose


• Responding to several verbal gestures


• Big improvement in imitation skills - YEA!


• Walking solid with a 1 finger assist with not such a wide base of support


• Crawls up the stairs well and now cognitively understands how to come down

For gross motor skills he's at a 12 month level. For fine motor, cognitive, receptive, social and adaptive level he ranges from 11 months to 16 month level. Because of these accomplishments, he now qualifies for a 9 week Sensory Motor Therapy Playgroup that is held at the county office. This will be a great experience for him as he gets to have additional therapy in a group setting with other little guys and gals at his level. Mom and Georgia are excited to participate in the fun as well! We hear there's lots of shaving cream and pudding involved!

We're having a full 2 day evaluation done the first week in March by the Fragile X experts at Kennedy Krieger Institute in Maryland. They have one of the 12 official Fragile X clinics in the US. Jimmo will be reviewed by a neuropsychologist, speech therapist, autism specialist, neurologist, and a psychiatrist. Last May, Jimi and I visited initially with the head Doctor at this clinic and have been anxious since to have this clinic completed. You can imagine the list of questions we've accumulated since then. It's so nice to be in an office of experts and you don't hear the words - Fragile what?

So that's our little Jimmo 6 month therapy update....many more to come!