Staffing update
Final decision postponed. We're in the final round -- one out of two families -- for the boy. Plus, we're also one out of three on another inquiry on a girl from another state. We know almost nothing about her yet.
The workers for the boy want to meet both prospective families in person before they decide. The meeting will be around the end of the month. We'll have some "homework" to do.
I don't want to go into much detail about the boy's special needs, but none of them are in our red flag zone. There's ADHD, which a huge percentage of the children will have anyway, often environmental and not "true" ADHD. Since my cousin has a very strong form of genetic ADHD, I'm not unfamiliar with it at all. It's challenging, but my whole family learned a lot of lessons from how his education was (mis)handled.
I'm kind of a geek, but I'm only good at math when I'm trying really hard. I had to brush up on basic probability to figure this out. But one out of two on one and one out of three on the other adds up to...
50% chance of being selected for one child
+
17% chance of being selected for both
=
67% chance of being selected for at least one!
Well, our plans to switch agencies have been moved to the back burner for now.
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6 comments:
I hope it works out. I know how agonizing this limbo stage can be and how defeating it is not to be matched. Slugger has a wide range of alphabet soup diagnoses. If you have any questions about some of the boy's diagnoses, feel free to email me. theopenwindow (at) charter (dot) net.
"Barb Michelen" stop leaving comment spam. I have already reported you to Google via email. If you keep this up I'm going to FAX them as well.
Glad to hear this positive news! I look forward to hearing about new developments. Also, I hope to see you again soon at UUCA - somehow Sunday mornings have been going slow for me recently but I do intend to come back! Have a great rest of the weekend.
Hang in there!
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