Not too much to update but a few people have asked so I figure I will just write-up a short post.
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| Alexis & Hunter |
This past thursday one of the Infants and Toddlers coordinators (not sure what her title actually is) stopped by for a meeting. We reviewed Hunter's plan, where he is at and where he needs to be. I signed a lot of paperwork to give them the go ahead to start working with Hunter. Our first speech therapy session isn't until Oct 6th and then it will be every monday after that (well actually its 4 Mondays a month, so if there is 5 Mondays in the month we will skip a week) They said they will reevaluate him in 6 months from this past thursday so we are looking around March 2015.
Here are a few tips she gave us to help him along the way.
- Change the way we act with him. Every mom knows what their kid wants without them actually asking for it... we need to wait for him to ask.
- Talk to him a lot, especially when he is sitting in his high chair or bath tub so we are eye level and he can watch our faces.
- Use simple one-two word phrases when we are talking to him
- Start simple sign language with him
- Give him less food at one time so he has to communicate to us that he wants more
We started with the sign for "more" it's a pretty easy one and this was probably the only sign I successfully taught Alexis (& she used it ALOT) We are actually going to try to get Alexis to start using sign language so she can give us some peace and quiet. wishful thinking :)
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