And its all just a little bit of history repeating........
I cannot believe that I find myself writing about walking and Joseph yet again. I thought this was all sorted and I just want to bash my head against the nearest wall. I was looking back in my archives and found this post, and I right back there again.
Yesterday I had trip to Joseph's preschool to have his review, he has two a year, which I personally don't feel is adequate but hey ho, that's what the local authority thinks is reasonable and who am I to argue with authority.
Overall the review was very positive, Joseph is coming on in leaps and bounds, his social skills and communication skills are improving very quickly, and his numerical ability is great. I was very pleased to hear that he is doing so well.
However preschool have noticed that his walking is immature. For some reason they hadn't documented my conversations relaying back meetings with orthotics etc, and hadn't noted that he is hypermobile in his hips and knees and to a lesser extent his ankles.
I feel really frustrated, because she started mentioning physio, exercises, even making adaptations to the room layout to accommodate him! I had no idea that this was such an issue, and what is really frustrating is that no one else appears to care that much. Physio signed him off once he took his steps, as did his neonatal consultant, and orthotics just say to let him develop normally and he'll improve over time.
The preschool coordinator has suggested we go back to the health visitor, which I will do today, but now I have no idea what to do. We don't have a named health visitor anymore. The team at the sure start centre don't really seem to know what to do with Joseph and his weird walking. I don't know whether to go back to the GP and ask for a consultant referral, or just return to orthotics. It's just really baffling me.
And, what's underpinning this for me is that I can hear Shirley Bassey singing in my head. I know, scary isn't it. When I was a child the very same issues beset me, and it feels like history repeating. I walked later than Joseph. Was never particularly physical. I'm still hypermobile in my hips but it doesn't affect my day to day life at all. I still kinda do the weird robot walking to an extent, over compensating in my pelvis in case I wobble and fall.
My gut instinct is that Joseph needs more encouragement to be physical, and choose physical activities that interest him. I am going to look for a street dance class for him, and start looking for a ball skills class too. I just think that because he knows he's not as physical he chooses more sedentary tasks that he is good at. See there it is history repeating. Reading age of 7 at 11 years old, but couldn't catch a tennis ball one handed, so sent to a special school. Yep that was me.
Joseph needs me to be on his cheer squad, to find creative ways around this, and help him develop at his own speed.
Wish me luck. Any advice gratefully received.
I cannot believe that I find myself writing about walking and Joseph yet again. I thought this was all sorted and I just want to bash my head against the nearest wall. I was looking back in my archives and found this post, and I right back there again.
Yesterday I had trip to Joseph's preschool to have his review, he has two a year, which I personally don't feel is adequate but hey ho, that's what the local authority thinks is reasonable and who am I to argue with authority.
Overall the review was very positive, Joseph is coming on in leaps and bounds, his social skills and communication skills are improving very quickly, and his numerical ability is great. I was very pleased to hear that he is doing so well.
However preschool have noticed that his walking is immature. For some reason they hadn't documented my conversations relaying back meetings with orthotics etc, and hadn't noted that he is hypermobile in his hips and knees and to a lesser extent his ankles.
I feel really frustrated, because she started mentioning physio, exercises, even making adaptations to the room layout to accommodate him! I had no idea that this was such an issue, and what is really frustrating is that no one else appears to care that much. Physio signed him off once he took his steps, as did his neonatal consultant, and orthotics just say to let him develop normally and he'll improve over time.
The preschool coordinator has suggested we go back to the health visitor, which I will do today, but now I have no idea what to do. We don't have a named health visitor anymore. The team at the sure start centre don't really seem to know what to do with Joseph and his weird walking. I don't know whether to go back to the GP and ask for a consultant referral, or just return to orthotics. It's just really baffling me.
And, what's underpinning this for me is that I can hear Shirley Bassey singing in my head. I know, scary isn't it. When I was a child the very same issues beset me, and it feels like history repeating. I walked later than Joseph. Was never particularly physical. I'm still hypermobile in my hips but it doesn't affect my day to day life at all. I still kinda do the weird robot walking to an extent, over compensating in my pelvis in case I wobble and fall.
My gut instinct is that Joseph needs more encouragement to be physical, and choose physical activities that interest him. I am going to look for a street dance class for him, and start looking for a ball skills class too. I just think that because he knows he's not as physical he chooses more sedentary tasks that he is good at. See there it is history repeating. Reading age of 7 at 11 years old, but couldn't catch a tennis ball one handed, so sent to a special school. Yep that was me.
Joseph needs me to be on his cheer squad, to find creative ways around this, and help him develop at his own speed.
Wish me luck. Any advice gratefully received.