Speech therapy got off to a rough start today...but thankfully, Brycen adores his therapist and she is so aware of his needs, that her fast reaction and thinking prevented a huge meltdown. Thank you, Laura! You may never know the way you prevented my blood pressure from rising along with his. It's every parent's goal in life to prevent their child from any harm, and unfortunately there are unforeseen obstacles like fire alarms that we cannot prevent, but it requires a lot to keep things under control.
Anyway, despite this rough start, Brycen had a fabulous therapy session...that concluded with him saying his word approximation for "kick" in a way that I consider sponanteously!!! Laura would stand by the ball, with her leg back and would ask "what do you want me to do?" and he responded with "ki"! Before this any words needed some kind of prompt like, "do you want MORE?" to get him to sign or say "mo." This is the only time I can think of that the word we were encouraging him to say was not used in the question to him...so I consider that SPONTANEOUS!
When he first started speech therapy with AEA almost two years ago, we had a list of all of his words and phrases, and if they were word approximations, spontaneous, or prompted. I did away with that list as he continued to regress down to one word "ball." The school was keeping track of his prompted words and that was exciting to see when he reached 20 several months ago, but again I quit keeping track as he then leveled off and was not saying anything more.
I think it is time to start that list again...and to watch as he progresses not only in person, but on paper really makes it real!
Yay for speech therapy and for over 4 hard weeks of starting a new routine and for all the progress that is already coming!
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