Leilani had her second session of speech therapy yesterday. Again, she was very happy and friendly with the doctor. But didn't make many sounds. There were a couple of squeaks here and there, but nothing else. In fact, half way through the appointment the doctor asked if she was always this quiet. She normally isn't; she can get very vocal at home, but it's all babble an nonsense. I'd like it if Leilani could start doing that during the next session so the doctor can see and hear it, because so far, Leilani's only made a couple of squeaks in front of her.
I didn't know this before but, speech therapy is just a stranger playing with your kid for half an hour. That's it. At least that's what it is at Children's Hospital. The speech therapist that we see just plays with toys with Leilani on the floor of her office. Sure, she enunciates the name and action of every toy they play with, but that's really it. This is the kind of stuff we do with Leilani at home all the time. Is this typically how it's done? Because if we ever need to start paying out-of-pocket for this therapy, we're going to stop taking her if this is all it is.
I'm interested to see if things get more "therapy-ish" at the next appointment.
Our therapist comes to our house, which is great because Kai shows more of his "normal" behaviour. Our therapist over-enunciates everything as well and gets Kai to copy her - which he does most of the time. She will also focus on only certain sounds each time. I think that this first part with Leilani the therapist is trying to build some trust so that Leilani starts to be more relaxed and open to learning in her sessions. Keep going! XOXO
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