Luhyoo!

[LenaGardner]

Speech therapy is working! Parker is doing 2 hours a week (with 2 different therapists on 3 separate days) and it is working so well! After 3 months in 1 therapy and 2 months in the other, he's saying many words...started at around 3-5 and now he has probably 20 or more. Because of his ears a lot of it still is muddled...he has 90% end consonant deletion...so sock is "soh" and dog is "doh" because he can't hear the ends of the words. Some of his words are really cute like "kip" for kiss

And just now...he said love you for the first time without me prompting him to!

I was telling him not to touch my power cord, and he hit me. I gave him a sad look and told him he should be nice....then he climbed up in my lap, kissed me and said "luhyoo". It totally made my DAY! ♥ Now after his tubes get put in tomorrow we should be able to make even quicker progress and he'll be talking up a storm (like my other 2 lol) in no time I hope!

[nun69]

that is awesome Lena!!!! WTG Parker!!!!

[Leila]

That's awesome, Lena!! It's so amazing what these therapies can do for kids!!

[pkstew2]

i love hearing stories like this - thanks for sharing

[ColleenSwerb]

Awwww, that's so awesome!! Yaaaaaaay Parker!!

[eranslow]

YAY!! That's awesome news Lena

[emmasmommy]

how awesome Lena!

Madelyn did that with her speech. she got her tubes put in and it was like, 'omgah kid. SHUT UP!' LOL

[rach3975]

That's fantastic! That first spontaneous I love you...awww. It took Ben a lot longer to start making progress (1 year of 1 hr/wk with no progress, then a diagnosis of apraxia, a change in approach, and almost a year of 2.5 hours a week with 2 different therapists before he really started talking), but after more than 3 years of therapy he's talking up a storm and is even taking a 6-week therapy break this summer! I can't imagine not having speech therapists in our life, LOL.

[taracotta7]

Originally Posted by emmasmommy

how awesome Lena!

Madelyn did that with her speech. she got her tubes put in and it was like, 'omgah kid. SHUT UP!' LOL

I was going to say the same thing! Landon got tubes at 3 years old and had speech delays. Within a couple of days it was amazing the changes he made in his speech! He sees he therapist 2 x's a week. He loves it and he has come so far. But like Laura said........now that he has got it mastered, I can't get him to shut up! LOL

I can't wait for you to see the changes in your DS! It will blow you away!

[MandaT]

That is awesome.

Such a great feeling to hear things like that from our kids, without prompts or just out of the blue.

[schock77]

That is GREAT Lena! The program I teach is for speech/language impaired kids and many with hearing issues see HUGE gains in articulation after tubes. Keep us posted- but I'm sure he'll be doing even better in no time.