Hellobee

It finally happened; our little guy is talking! He’s two and half, and after almost a year of therapy, he’s speaking in phrases. A few changes in our interactions with him finally tipped his speech development. While he’s not totally caught up, it is so wonderful he can communicate his wants and needs. Here’s what […]

I wrote about a month ago about Little Bug’s first speech therapy appointment. I left that appointment feeling pretty negatively towards the therapist and towards the “process,” but agreed to go to another appointment with a different therapist to see if that was a better fit. We went to this appointment last Friday, and although […]

Well, here we are. Little Bug has officially started speech therapy. At his 15 month appointment, he was saying zero words, and was not even able to open his mouth to make sounds that were needed to form words. We’ve been working with him and trying to get him to talk more or to try […]

In late August, we had our little guy’s speech assessed through Early Intervention (EI). We knew he would likely have problems in this area, and the assessment did show delays which qualified him for speech. While I expected him to qualify for EI, the details of the results were surprising to me in some ways, […]

This past week we had Juliet’s annual review — her last one ever as she will be discharged in June when she turns 3. As I talked to her service coordinator for the last time, we both remarked how much Juliet has changed from when she started the program as an eight month old baby, and is […]

It’s been a while since I have updated about Juliet and early intervention, so this is where we are now. Juliet has been in early intervention now for close to 2 years. She started around nine months old and was enrolled at one point in developmental, physical, and speech. At nearly two and a half […]

D’s lovely OT introduced us to the concept of a “speech box” several months ago. The speech box is a structured speech therapy tool, which she claimed that many of her charges (and their siblings!) loved to do. Basically you keep items in a box and take them out one by one to play with […]