Josh's 6 month Early Intervention Evaluation.

Overall it went really well.We have started to notice some differences and it was great to sit with the two therapists and discuss strategies for helping Josh to overcome these challenges.We need to get him to use his left side more.It isn't uncommon for children with microtia /atresia to use one side more than another especially on the affected side.We will be working to encourage this.The other area we need to work with is speech .Josh reached a certain point and isn't making any new sounds.It is a sort of reconfirmation of his hearing loss.Josh's therapist asked us to begin using more sign language with him.She thinks that it will help us to communicate not only now but also as he gets older.Lastly I am asking people to pray that the audiologist will see Josh's need for a special hearing aid that can help him.We can't afford it on our own but we know our Jehovah Jirah can.