Speech Therapy

Think All Flash Cards Are Alike? Think Again! – A Review of Goosie Cards

December 11, 2008

To preview what Goosie Cards are, visit their web site at GoosieCards.com. As we’ve chronicled in recent posts (see “My God, He IS Reading!”, “Roy G. Biv”), our son is all about his flash cards lately. They’re not going to displace the Sacred Wooden Letter Blocks of Steadfast Security and Comfort anytime soon, but flash [...]

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IEP Results – The Short Version

August 26, 2008

Thanks to everyone for the good thoughts and well wishes for today’s IEP meeting. We appreciate everyone’s encouragement! This is the brief version because we’re feeling baked right now. After all the emotion and stress that gets invested in the IEP process, now that it’s essentially over, all we can think about doing is crashing [...]

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Fish Oil and Omega-3s – The Sort of Final Verdict for Now

August 17, 2008

We haven’t written about our fish oil/Omega-3s experiment in a while. (To catch up on the backstory, view all of the posts tagged Omega-3.) This is mostly because we keep waiting for some revelatory event to help us determine one way or the other whether it has made an obvious difference in J-Man’s progress, particularly [...]

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Our First Experience with Therapeutic Listening

August 7, 2008

Tuesday we tried something with J-Man’s OT called “Therapeutic Listening” (officially, it’s a trademarked term by somebody). You may have come across this under terms like ‘auditory therapy’, ‘auditory training’, ‘listening therapy’, and a host of other terms. I don’t understand how all this works very well at all, and there are different approaches to [...]

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J-E-L-L-O!

July 10, 2008

Pepaw (Tim’s dad) came over today to play with the J-man… oh, and to help Tim clean out the gutters. By help I mean, Pepaw held the ladder. Thank goodness! For some reason, the J-man picks the days that Pepaw is here to learn a new and exciting skill. Today, it was how to spell [...]

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Houston, We Have Pretend Play!!!

July 9, 2008

In one of those make-my-day moments, during speech therapy J-Man actually fed a bear with an empty spoon after ‘dipping’ the spoon in an empty bowl. So nothing in the bowl or on the spoon, and – shocking newsflash – stuffed bears don’t eat! It’s an abstract, non-literal event! And this is a kid with [...]

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And colors too?!

July 2, 2008

And now something that should make upcoming evaluations even more interesting… Apparently, J-Man can identify a handful of colors too. One of our new learning-at-home activities is to do “Point to ____” and give him multiple choices, then repeat that 10 times. We’ve started keeping a notebook and recording how he does. His progress at [...]

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Actually, he does!

June 30, 2008

Today I heard the J-man count to 10! Yes, 1-7 were mostly “cuh-cuh” but when Tim got to 7 and the J-man said “ayyyy” and then Tim repeated “eight,” and the J-man said “niii” I just about wet myself. Not that I knew this the other day when I was grousing about the whole incorrect [...]

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