January 4, 2010
Up bright and early to make it into Salt Lake by 8:30. Sam is such a good sport. I woke him up a little before 7 and was whispering CHEERIOS in his ear to get him out of bed. We haven't had cold cereal for a few weeks so it worked. I didn't get on 1-15 until 8 so needless to say I was late. CSHCN-Children with special heath care needs-was our destination. We hadn't been there for almost a year. Dr. Brad Peck (psychologist) was the Doctor of the day. I always kick myself for not writing down my questions so I will remember everything. Oh well. Dr. immediately sat down and began looking over his notes from last year and then observing Ammon. Asked me questions about any progress he had made over the year. To me it was HUGE that he is saying a few words again.

Dr:" I sense in your voice you are worried whether he will talk"
All of a sudden I became EXTREMELY SELF AWARE...if you know what I mean...after all I was sitting there talking to a psychologist.

Then I reminded myself for the millionth time that this was about Ammon not me.

He went on to give me some helpful insights."Kids with PDD (pervasive developmental disorder) like Ammon who lose language will generally begin to regain some language at 3 years and 3 months which will build over the next few years. Their receptive language however does not come until around 7 years old." (Which was really a shock to me.) Dr. Kerr had told me that sometimes when children lose language they never speak again...so I became really hopeful for A. I would give anything to sit and ask him something and have him answer me back.I have pretend conversations with him all the time in my head. Usually about him telling me something about a truck or what he wants to eat. I'm living for that. I've pictured it a million times.

Dr. then tried to test his I.Q. Sounds funny. Ammon just wanted to re-arrange the furniture. So we'll wait on that. Next year.