today's meeting

Good News

the Mercer Island school district now officially agrees that Philip is "developmentally delayed" and hence eligible for services, and evidently sufficiently so to be eligible for the summer program, too. If the doctor next month comes back with a diagnosis of genuine Autism^TM, that'll be worth another hour or so each day.

Bad News

see above.

In all categories except for the motor stuff he's apparently <= -2σ (on the various standardized tests . . . at least in the cases where it was even possible to get any kind of score), and even for the motor stuff where he's only about -0.5σ there are still apparently things he should know how to do by now that he doesn't, e.g., jump up and down with both feet or throwing stuff --- of course, his dad never learned how to throw either (5th percentile in softball throw on the President's Physical Fitness test; go me!), but anyway...

Philip knows his numbers

1	13	14	6*	6
2	5	15	11	8
3	7	10	16	61**
4	17	18	12	20

Philip has now reproduced the above arrangement of numbered blocks something like 5 times in the past week or two.

I keep resetting it to the correct arrangement

1	2	4	8	16
13	7	14	9	18
17	15	11	3	6
12	5	10	20†	19††

to no avail.

<td>††</td><td>yeah I know 19 isn't quite right here, but it's the only remaining block, so bite me.</td>

*	upside-down 9
**	upside-down 19
†	hey, it works