I didn't get a chance to update last week, but First Steps approved Speech Therapy twice a week and OT once a week for Nathan! We had no idea what we were going to do when the clinic closed, but God had much better plans. Nathan is still able to see the same SLP and OT from the clinic, but now that they are working through First Steps, it will be saving us over $1000 a month! What a blessing!
Nathan took his last scheduled trip to Indy today (we will now only be going every three months) and they gave us a lot of things to do at home to work on his motor planning. His speech continues to improve and we are supposed to start pushing for all two and three word phrases now. He is still a bit hard to understand, but can repeat just about any single word. It is simply amazing to witness the progress he is making.
Ugh, it's 9:00 and Fussy Pants is waking up already - gonna be a good night! :)
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
1, 2, 3, 4, 5!!
So I got a report from therapy today that Nathan was counting. I wasn't sure I believed it, so I put five trains in front of him and told him to count them. Sure enough, he said, "one, two, three, four, five!" Of course it wasn't that clear, but how cool is that?!! And his random new word for the day? Notebook. Yep, Bill was talking about updating our notebook (laptop) and Nathan repeated it like he's been saying that word forever.
Okay, here's another funny story, but I have to rat my mom out :) Bill, Nathan and I were eating dinner this weekend and after we finished he started saying "eye, eye". I asked if something was wrong with his eye and he shook his head and kept repeating it. I got him down from the table and he ran to his snack drawer and looked around saying "eye, eye". At this point I'm a little concerned, because although he hasn't been speaking for long, I can almost always figure out what is wrong. Bill finally broke down and told me that my mom had given Nathan an M&M the day before and for some unknown reason Nathan thought it looked like an eye. Hmmmm.... busted mom! Nathan can now officially rat out his mamaw. No more sneaking treats to that boy!
As you can tell, he is still making tremendous progress. He has become quite the bossy little thing (in a good way!) now that he can say "no" and "me, me, me!". It has made him so much more independent and he is so happy and proud of himself. He uses words like up, down, on, off, and move while playing and the other day told my dad "down, read!"
Today was also his last day of therapy at the clinic in Terre Haute (they are closing) and he received his discharge paperwork. At the time of his evaluation two months ago, he had no real words and was speaking at an 11 month old level (which I think was generous). He now has around 50 words he says pretty clearly and another 25-30 approximations. We have a team meeting with First Steps next week and I will be asking to add speech now that his therapist is on their matrix. Please pray that they will approve this, as it would be huge for us both financially and because Nathan and Tracey have worked so well together.
Sorry for the long post, time to get to work now. I'm going to try to squeeze a couple of hours in before Cranky Pants wakes up.
Okay, here's another funny story, but I have to rat my mom out :) Bill, Nathan and I were eating dinner this weekend and after we finished he started saying "eye, eye". I asked if something was wrong with his eye and he shook his head and kept repeating it. I got him down from the table and he ran to his snack drawer and looked around saying "eye, eye". At this point I'm a little concerned, because although he hasn't been speaking for long, I can almost always figure out what is wrong. Bill finally broke down and told me that my mom had given Nathan an M&M the day before and for some unknown reason Nathan thought it looked like an eye. Hmmmm.... busted mom! Nathan can now officially rat out his mamaw. No more sneaking treats to that boy!
As you can tell, he is still making tremendous progress. He has become quite the bossy little thing (in a good way!) now that he can say "no" and "me, me, me!". It has made him so much more independent and he is so happy and proud of himself. He uses words like up, down, on, off, and move while playing and the other day told my dad "down, read!"
Today was also his last day of therapy at the clinic in Terre Haute (they are closing) and he received his discharge paperwork. At the time of his evaluation two months ago, he had no real words and was speaking at an 11 month old level (which I think was generous). He now has around 50 words he says pretty clearly and another 25-30 approximations. We have a team meeting with First Steps next week and I will be asking to add speech now that his therapist is on their matrix. Please pray that they will approve this, as it would be huge for us both financially and because Nathan and Tracey have worked so well together.
Sorry for the long post, time to get to work now. I'm going to try to squeeze a couple of hours in before Cranky Pants wakes up.
Friday, January 1, 2010
Happy New Year!!
Happy New Year! We had such a blessed 2009, praying that 2010 will be just as wonderful! Nathan's speech is continuing to improve daily. He is beginning to use a lot more spontaneous speech more two word phrases. The bad news to report is the rehab center where he was receiving therapy is closing next week, so we will be losing our awesome SLP. We're still not sure what we are going to do- he has a session on Tuesday so we'll discuss our options then.
With all the updates I've made on Nathan's speech, I've been somewhat overlooking the sensory issues. Nathan has always had problems getting his teeth brushed, hair cut or washed, using blankets, etc. The newest issue this winter was wearing gloves- he would try to put them on but then scream and cry. He really wanted to wear them but he just couldn't stand it. So after a ton of work from my mom, I'm happy to report that Nathan was able to wear his gloves and play out in the snow this past week! You can see from the picture that he loved it! Anyway, we're really trying to focus on the SPD, especially now that we're seeing so much improvement in his speech.
Time for bed, Happy 2010 everyone!
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