Grendel’s Kitchen

Coming from a year in an institutional background, Li-Li was expected to start with some significant developmental delays: for example, she wasn’t crawling yet at 1 year when we adopted her. Compounding that, her caregivers had no idea that she was deaf, so she had gone a full year without any language input, spoken or signed. But with the guidance of so many amazing people, she’s making huge leaps: take a look at the progression in these snapshots from her Early Intervention evaluations. In each, the straight line represents her age at the time of testing.