We had our meeting with Early Intervention today. This was to be the meeting where they would present us with a plan for the continuing involvement of Early Intervention with Ella’s development. I found ‘the plan’ to be a bit bland and derived a little too much from our input rather than from their expertise and knowledge. Somehow I expected them to go away, research Ella’s condition a bit and then return with some very specific things that needed attention, plus suggestions about the way that they need to be addressed. Instead, the goals were dictated by us, namely ‘we want to make sure Ella’s development is as close to normal as possible’.
Still, I am happy that they (Early Intervention) exist and that an external pair of eyes will come and evaluate how she is doing once in a while. The end result is that an Early Intervention worker will come and work with Ella once every two weeks.
We’ll see.