Meeting the Educator and Speech Therapist

Today I met with the speech therapist who was very uplifting.  She will focus on Paxon's verbal and communication skills.  We will try different methods to achieve this.  We will be putting sounds with our everyday routines, such as unzippering an item, we make a zzzzziiiiiippppp sound as we are doing it.  When we bounce a ball, we say BOUNCE, BOUNCE, BOUNCE, as the ball is bouncing.  We are also going to work on his eating habits, maybe introducing new foods and how to do it.  We have maybe discovered in doing so, that his snack table is the best place to place new foods there and see what he does.  When in the highchair, Paxon just throws food on the floor when he is not familiar with it, versus on his snack table, he will leave it there, but come back to it maybe trying it.  We will introduce some sign language and pictures to identify certain objects.  All of this will have meaning and a purpose with his therapy, us as parents are learning as well, and will have to follow through and be consistant in all methods.  Since we now have a feel for what we need to do, we will begin our therapy and hopefully make progress as the weeks roll by.  Until next time...........