The verdict is in...

GA had a session with a speech therapist today and she has officially diagnosed him with a speech delay. Not a huge surprise on our part, but I guess it was nice to hear a "professional" say we aren't crazy and have her let us know that in all the other cognitive areas they look at he is just fine. We still have two more meeting with the woman from the AZ Early Intervention Program. She will come this Friday and do her own evaluation as she interacts with him in different ways and then the last meeting will be to set up a plan of action. I am hoping that our insurance will cover speech therapy for him because if not the AZEIP only does therapy once a month whereas a private speech therapist will do an hour weekly! I will have to check into whether or not our insurance will cover it. So, for now he will be in speech therapy either at home or in a clinic and when he turns 3 he will be put into the public school system and will go to a "head start" preschool (half day) that is built around each child's delay. I am sure we will still learn more from our next two meetings and as the therapy begins.