I got the ball rolling for so Sophia to start seeing a speech therapist on November 5th. It is now the eve of December and we have yet to actually have a speech therapy session. I haven’t even met the person that will be Sophia’s speech therapist, so far all we’ve had is a bunch of meetings for various case workers to get to know Sophia (mostly through me describing her). I swear they’re just waiting for her to start talking on her own. Thankfully, I have the time to take her to some of the free classes they offer. I don’t know if they’re helping her language along or if it was just time, but she’s beginning to add some more words in rapid succession.
A couple weeks ago she started saying “bak” for bag. I got rid of our diaper champ long ago and now use a wet bag to hold the dirties. I dump it in the trash outside after it either fills up or has a poopy diaper in it. She also learned “be-bye” for goodbye.
Last week she began saying “oh no” and just kept repeating it over an over all day long. Then she picked up the word “go” which really has no meaning to her, or at least is not used in the context of, “let’s go somewhere”. It’s just another word from her favorite book “Go, Dog. Go!” She also says, “dak”, which translate from toddler-ese to mean “dog”. If she wanted to she could actually say the title of her favorite book.
On Friday she pointed to her diaper and said, “daper”, and on Saturday she said, “Muk” for milk. Kurt is getting excited; this might be the word explosion. Of course, this only brings the word count up to 29, if you don’t double up and count both the sign and word for milk and apple. She still only uses the sign to ask for both.
In one of the many meetings I had to get the ball rolling for speech therapy I mentioned our concern that Sophia stopped saying cheese and started using a modified sign for banana instead. “Well if you respond to the sign she makes…” she said. So I stopped responding with cheese to Sophia’s sign and started saying, “cheese” to coax it out of her. She hasn’t had string cheese since, and has now stopped asking for it at all.
November 30th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Sounds like Sophia is using the exact same words at the same time Chloe did. chloe was 25 months about when these words started popping out. So yeah, it is the word explosion. However, at times Chloe will talk to herself in a language that makes no sense. It frustrates me but at least there are words that make sense. Just two days ago she said “daddy” instead of dada and now has started yelling “dad!…DAD!!!” When she wants Henry’s attention. She yells like a teenager.
November 30th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
Finally!!
This made me smile Big Time!!