8.12.2008

SLP

Again this morning, he was still asleep at 7:20. I finally was able to coax him out of bed by turning the TV up. He popped up at the sound of the TV and gave me a very satisfied look. **rolling my eyes that THIS is what makes him happy when I have to drag him out of bed** After I told him Jen was coming, he was BOUND and DETERMINED that she was coming in the door THAT MOMENT. Jen always brings in a big bag full of toys and games. He picked up a basket full of toys, threw it over his shoulder, carried it to the kitchen, walked straight to the door, and started to whine. "What do you want?" "Do you want Jen?" "Yes (whine)... Jeeeeennnnn" "Jeeennnnnnn ..... Jeeennnnnn..." "I..... nant..... Jen.... pleeese... sniffle sniffle" Thank goodness she came early and I didnt have to explain for the 1000th time that he has to be paitient and she couldn't come in the door until she arrived. Jen comes to the door & you'd think she was Elmo LIVE or something. He lights up, runs over to the place they always play, and sits 'criss-cross applesauce' ready for a morning of fun. The therapy itself was pretty similar to how its been every week recently. However, he has started to realize that he has to work for everything with Jen, and its not actually all fun and games. We worked MOST on his /W/ sounds this week. Everytime he said 'nant' instead of 'want' she corrected him. He got frustrated at this VERY quick and started telling her he was 'all done' with that game so he could get past working on saying it right. There were even a couple times he just skipped the word alltogether so he wouldnt say it wrong. HOW SMART WAS THAT?? Or manipulative... you pick. The main theme of this week (other than /W/) was mixing up questions. So, in the lift the flap book, she wouldnt only ask WHO was under the flap, she also asked WHAT they were doing and WHERE something was. She said that he is anticipating her asking WHO is under the flap & that mixing up the questions and making him answer a different question than expected will help him to understand the differences between the WH words. Other games this week: Ball game - modeling asking questions with him. Not giving him the ball until he said 'want' correctly. Magnet game - making choices - which magnet, where it goes, asking lots of questions of where the people should go, what they're doing, etc.. Next week, she said she would bring me a printed list of his goals. (part of me feels like I should have had that list a long time ago, since I am responsible for upkeep of his therapy throughout the rest of the week) That will be hugely helpful to me so that I can have a list to look at that will tell me exactly what we need to work on for 6 months. The goals dont change for 6 months & hopefully he will meet all his goals within that period. Also, she asked how our OT eval. went. I told her a little about it and she blatanly disagreed with the outcome. As you can read below the OT thinks he has sensory issues. The SLP does not. She thinks that some kids just avoid certain things like raw fruits and veggies. I particularly liked the way the OT went about her evaluation (taking into account how NORMAL it is for a 2 year old to be picky) because she took it more from the point of view that once he is already upset by something seems to be more so when he is affected by being overly sensitive. At any rate.. I just told Jen that I will go ahead with the OT weather he has sensory issues or not & we will see if any part of it is helpful to him. If so, great. If not, fine. Either way, I dont think his 'LABELS' are what is helpful... it is the therapy and assistance that follows.

1 comment:

CandyISVegan said...

Hey, CCSA sent us our list of goals when we got the printed copy of the evaluation. Strange you didn't get yours until you were well into therapy?