Child Find Eval

Sienna has been declared "normal". Now, usually I wouldn't get excited about this, as in my opionion normal=boring, and I know that she is far from boring, but when having a developmental evaluation conducted on your child, normal=good. So, in this instance, I was so happy to hear that my baby is "normal." Basically, the experts think that her pediatrician was over-reacting and that he misunderstood the guidelines of what constitutes a language delay. He (the pediatrician) was very convincing when he explained that "complete strangers should understand 100% or her words, which should equal between 5-10 words" at 18 months of age. This concern of his accompanied with the face that Sage was on the complete other end of the spectrum with 75 recognizeable words at 18 months of age, was enough for me to consent to the evaluation.
Well, I found out that only 60% of her words should be recognizeable to strangers. And, as I knew would happen, she has had a huge explosion of words in the past 3-4 weeks, which she certainly shared with the evaluators. She now says the following words with very good clarity (they knew what she was saying without me having to interpret): baby, bubble, pop, yeah, poo-poo, pee-pee, ball, juice, done, boo-boo, owie, push, dada, bee, and I know there's a few more that I can't recall at this moment. Even though the appointment was very time consuming and I knew in my gut that there was nothing wrong, I'm glad we went through with it, as it gives me a peace of mind and reassurance that my baby is just fine.