Talk is Cheap, Anyway
June 10 2009 Well, that was a waste of time.
As soon as I signed us in, a sea of strange faces swarmed Buzz. They tried to take his picture (for what, I’m still not sure). They wanted him to play games and piece together puzzles and point to the purple square and say rhinoceros. Nevermind the fact that I can barely say rhinoceros. This is not how you win Buzz over. You win Buzz over with personal space. And candy.
Suffice it to say, our evaluation didn’t go well. In fact, it went nowhere at all.
It was all too much. He didn’t want anything to do with it. I was able to calm him down enough to play with a plastic giraffe. As long as it was only the 3 of us (J came along, too). Anyone else, though, and he was a mess again.
We’re supposed to try again at a later date. Right. Because give him 2 weeks and he’ll miraculously be the life of the party. I don’t know. I’m kind of at a loss with the whole thing.
2 Responses
on June 10 2009
Oh, poor kiddo. I can only imagine how overwhelming that was for him. Good luck with that. I hate you guys have to go through that :/
on June 10 2009
you might try a developmental pediatrician- only one person in the room with you. There’s no swarming. you can then take that to your local school authorities who can use it as a basis to get him into the program
im sorry it did not go well