Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Baby T and the New Speech Therapist

We asked last week for a new speech therapist and she came out yesterday for the first time to see her and she came out again today. Today, at the end of the session she asked if there was anything that happened to Baby T at birth or anything. I said not that I knew of, but then again we're not always given all the details. I told her about her Mom's history and told her I've begun to have some concerns about both of the girls and asked her what her concern was. She said that all during session yesterday and today she noticed that Baby T doesn't say one complete word as it's supposed to be said. I told her that when we first got Baby T almost a year ago that she barely said 5 words. Her speech is coming along, and she is putting some words together to form 2 word sentences. However, she fails to say almost anything but the vowels. "u ew a" means "put shoe on." and "up" really means "cup." She just started to say "water" last week however she says "a-er." I understand her more than anyone, but that's only because I'm her primary caretaker. She leaves a lot of her word sounds out. You primarily hear the vowels and occasionally you get a few consonents in the end, but she never puts them on the beginning of words. She's come a long way since we first got her, but she still has so much longer to go.

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