We had speech today and his therapist thinks he is doing great for only being 11 weeks hearing age. Some of his newest tricks are:
1. When I whisper p-p-p-p-p-p (the sound for the boat) he will point to the boys doorway where we have the boat mobile hanging.
2. When I pick him up, I say "you want up? up?up?up?" and he's started copying it sometimes and says Uh-uh-uh.
3. He will imitate the AAaahhhhh with the change in pitch that we do for the airplane. He still does the monotone AAaahhhh that was his first repeat sound but now he will do the pitch change when we do.
4. With a slide we let figures go up and down and say "Up, up, up, wheeeee." He has started saying uh-uh-uh and then lets them slide.
5. He's mimicked the woof-woof for the dog with oo-oo and the sheep's baa with aahh.
6. The other night he was playing in his brother's room while I was in our room and he started fussing and I heard him crawl into the living room looking for me so I just called out once "Landon". He stopped going that way, turned around, and I heard him laughing as he came crawling down the hall into our room.
He's done others but that's the main ones that are coming to mind right now. I really need to get in the habit of updating here when he does stuff but between his therapy, homeschooling Connor, working, and keeping up the house it seems to fall to the back burner. I find that on a daily basis we sometimes start thinking he should be doing more than what he is but then when we stop and think he is only at the hearing age of an 11 week old we realize how far he has really come. We did the whole hearing aid thing from 3mths until his surgery but he really couldn't hear with them. I can remember only two times where he actually showed a reaction to sound. He still tested in the 75-80 db loss range with the aids on so he really had no hearing experience prior to his activation. To think that 2 months ago he couldn't hear a plane take off and now he can mimic sounds we make and hears us whisper sounds - it really is amazing.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
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4 comments:
It is amazing. He's doing so well, you ought to feel very encouraged by that progress! Ethan also wore aids for 3 months and in the sound booth continued to show a profound loss, never alerted to a single sound at any db level. It's truly miraculous what these Ci's can do for these kids.
He's doing so well! I know how much fun you are all having...it keeps getting better and better!
Enjoy Disney. Not sure when you all leave, but have a great time!
Reading this takes me right back to when our now 5 1/2 year old daughter was just turned on. Little baby steps at first, but now, over four years later, she is talking non-stop and will mainstream into first grade in the fall.
Yes, I agree w/everyone else...one day you won't get a word in edgewise so enjoy these times when you're allowed to speak!haha
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