Ty has has weekly speech therapy starting this past April. It has been amazing to think he has gone from a sign vocabulary of maybe 25 signs, saying 2 words (Mama and No) and now having a vocabulary of over 50 signs and 100 words! We give a bunch of the credit to us working with him through songs, books, talking to him and plain old play, but Ms. Linda, our speech therapist has been a blessing. Ty runs to the door when Ms. Linda comes over to play and helps her bring in the toys. Ty radiates with joy and excitement when she comes over and loves to play with her toys. It is "play with a purpose" and he strives for the sounds/words we want him to say. Ty is so engaged with Ms. Linda's toys that we do not want to duplicate them at home so he will look forward to her visits.
Ty found the Mardi Gras beads at the bottom of Ms. Linda's bag and dumped them out on the floor. I am not sure how Ms. Linda uses the Mardi Gras beads because Ty went silent due to being so engrossed. Ms. Linda and I sat back and watched him play. By the way, it was at the end of his session so we were not concerned with him being mute.
Ty seemed to be starving during this therapy session and helped himself to a snack of almost gone puffs.
I love the look on his face with all the crumbs!
Ty helping himself to a little tea!
2 comments:
That's awesome! And man is he doing some growing...didn't think it had been that long since I checked in.
So wonderful his speech and understanding is doing so well.
AA chatters up a storm, but we cannot understand most of it. Maybe we should get her into speech?
Love your little Ty!!
Alyzabeth's Mommy for Eleven Months!
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