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Almost a year after a pediatrician faxed over a referral to the Meyer Center for Developmental Pediatrics, I received a phone call last week to schedule an appointment to bring my son in for an evaluation. A lot has changed since his daycare center tossed him out and told me he was not welcomed back. He no longer bites other children, for one. He hasn’t had a tantrum since last May (though the last one was a doozie and resulted in some structural damage to the home of his babysitter at the time). He seems pretty normal to me and to his current babysitter. Then again, he is not in a classroom environment with a lot of other children at this time. That will change when he starts kindergarten later this year, and I’m nervous about that.
I went ahead and made the appointment for the end of April, which is the soonest they can see us. I’m worried about the two possible outcomes: that after the 2-hour evaluation they will find my son perfectly normal and will glare at us for wasting their time when other children need their help so much, and that after the evaluation they will find something other than normal that will mean an uphill battle for my son.
Of course, the why-did-you-waste-our-time glare will be preferable to an I’m-so-sorry-to-tell-you smile of sympathy.
( Normal is a relative word, isn't it? )
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Almost a year after a pediatrician faxed over a referral to the Meyer Center for Developmental Pediatrics, I received a phone call last week to schedule an appointment to bring my son in for an evaluation. A lot has changed since his daycare center tossed him out and told me he was not welcomed back. He no longer bites other children, for one. He hasn’t had a tantrum since last May (though the last one was a doozie and resulted in some structural damage to the home of his babysitter at the time). He seems pretty normal to me and to his current babysitter. Then again, he is not in a classroom environment with a lot of other children at this time. That will change when he starts kindergarten later this year, and I’m nervous about that.
I went ahead and made the appointment for the end of April, which is the soonest they can see us. I’m worried about the two possible outcomes: that after the 2-hour evaluation they will find my son perfectly normal and will glare at us for wasting their time when other children need their help so much, and that after the evaluation they will find something other than normal that will mean an uphill battle for my son.
Of course, the why-did-you-waste-our-time glare will be preferable to an I’m-so-sorry-to-tell-you smile of sympathy.
( Normal is a relative word, isn't it? )
