Banty wrote in
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Whats this? Who are "ChildFind" and how did they get this
power and mixed up in your life??

he didn't talk at age 2. no babble, nothing except an really
good ambulance siren imitation, so he was referred to Early
Intervention. he received physical therapy & later speech
therapy. he was unable to work the muscles in his tongue &
face to make sounds (i currently maintain speech therapy was
the stupidest parenting mistake i've made g)
anyway, when kids age out of EI at age 3, they refer you to
ChildFind or whatever your state calls the school district
developmental delay program. i didn't know this when i went
into EI. i figured he'd get a year of PT & then i'd find a
private PT if he needed to continue. one of the things the PT
suggested was putting him into a playgroup once/week so he
could play with other kids. seemed reasonable at the time
because there aren't other kids around.
well, that & the fact that Boo refused to play the intake
coordinators games made them decide to label him emotionally
immature (show me an emotionally mature 2year7 month old) &
overly attached to me.
he *tried* to talk to the intake coordinators & show them his
tractors and implements, but they wanted him to look at
pictures & point at things (when they asked him where the
window was in the picture, he pointed to the window he was
sitting next to, & when that was "wrong" he didn't want to
play that game).
so, they wanted him to go to developmentally delayed
preschool & i thought they were crazy.
lee still thinks they're crazy. hence the private school