Angel does the cutest things these days. She loves to pick up any phone that she finds near her, hold it to her ear and yell out "Yeah" :) She loves to explore the world around her, cruising along furniture and walls quite comfortably. And she's also very quick - she climbs beds and sofas in seconds. And boy does it make me happy. Especially since some experts had us believe that we would have to wait a long time before she achieved these milestones. Yet at one, she's showing just minimal delays much to everyone's surprise.
We recently got Angel's developmental assessment done at Umeed, an organization that helps children with developmental disabilities. This could easily be one of the most important things we have done in the recent past. It not only gave us an idea of where Angel is, it also helped to identify areas that we need to work on.
Angel started on early intervention (only physiotherapy) when she was two months old but we had never got a developmental assessment done and we were not even aware about it. Our serendipitous discovery of Umeed led to us making an appointment for the assessment. I know for a fact that many children here (in India) have no access to such facilities so if you are a parent of a child with special needs and you live in India I would suggest that you find out options through your pediatrician to determine your child's progress. This would be very helpful in designing a development program for your child.
Coming back to Angel, the developmental pediatrician told us that she's showing good potential in many areas. We do have areas that need working on - the main ones are speech and language. So that's going to be key over the next few months. I'll be making an appointment shortly with a speech therapist who offers an at-home programme. In the meantime, I'm trying to implement some of the recommendations made by the developmental pediatrician at Umeed. Will keep you posted on how this goes.
Thanks for reading,
JD
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