Every single day it’s been raining. We’ve had 2 days of sunshine and the rest has been cold and dreary. I do have to say how green everything is though, after living in UT and TX the green is a nice change but the weather is depressing.
Trying to get Caden some new therapists is proving the nightmare I heard it was. I was told back in UT by some ladies that to get services started again it would take 2-3 months in Chicago. I talked to his wonderful therapists at the time and we hoped this wouldn’t be the case since Caden clearly qualifies and has been in Early Intervention since birth. Apparently not.
On Tuesday I was told Caden was having his evaluation for EI services, turns out the woman was only coming out to go over paperwork. It took all of 20 minutes because I all ready had filled out all the paperwork beforehand. Now it seems it’s going to take 1-2 weeks for them to even call me to set up his developmental screening. And who knows when that can take place because apparently they are swamped and there are no openings right now, there was even talk of a waiting list, so his screening could be 2-4+ weeks away. Once the screening is done by the Occupational Therapist, the Speech Pathologist, and the Developmental Specialist, from that point they state that services can take up to 45 days to start. So we are indeed looking at a 3 month wait to start any type of therapy with Caden because of the bureaucracy. Despite the fact that he just had a developmental screening late Jan. and we have a Family Service Plan all ready. Ugh.
Caden is so far behind in speech, it is absolutely painful to lose 3 precious months waiting for paperwork to be done. I think I’m going to explore private speech for him and see what our new insurance can cover.