Hello all!
We had our appointment with the speech therapist on Thursday. I'm sorry it's taken me a few days to post this...we've had a crazy couple of days. Anyways, Landon's teacher, Lois, had recommended that we go see a speech therapist that she had worked with before named Paul Lakko (I'm not sure if I'm spelling his name right). He works at the Munroe-Meyer clinic at the University of Nebraska Medical Center here in town. He has worked with other kids with speech delays that have pasy muirs before, so Lois thought that he would be a good fit for us.
Landon did very well in showing Paul how he knew most of his animal sounds. He knows the sounds for (but doesn't completely know how to say) cat, lion, monkey, dog, bird, and he's starting to get bear and dinosaur (dinosaur is pretty much the same as lion cause they both roar). :) He doesn't get the sounds out exactly the way they are supposed to be said, but Paul said to just work with what he is giving us. He told me to keep trying to get him to use the front of his tongue by telling him to imitate a cat (Landon just rolls his tongue around in the front of his mouth when he does a cat noise). He also wants us to start getting him to hold the sounds for longer periods of time and to make sure that he is doing most of the noises from his mouth and not his nose. Landon tends to be a little more nasally sounding when he talks, and Paul informed me that that is hard to change later, so to try and get him to correct that now. So we're going with that for right now. He's going to get back with me in a couple of weeks to see how we are doing and if and when we can set up another appointment.
Landon did very well in showing Paul how he knew most of his animal sounds. He knows the sounds for (but doesn't completely know how to say) cat, lion, monkey, dog, bird, and he's starting to get bear and dinosaur (dinosaur is pretty much the same as lion cause they both roar). :) He doesn't get the sounds out exactly the way they are supposed to be said, but Paul said to just work with what he is giving us. He told me to keep trying to get him to use the front of his tongue by telling him to imitate a cat (Landon just rolls his tongue around in the front of his mouth when he does a cat noise). He also wants us to start getting him to hold the sounds for longer periods of time and to make sure that he is doing most of the noises from his mouth and not his nose. Landon tends to be a little more nasally sounding when he talks, and Paul informed me that that is hard to change later, so to try and get him to correct that now. So we're going with that for right now. He's going to get back with me in a couple of weeks to see how we are doing and if and when we can set up another appointment.
I've included a couple of pictures from this month so far. There's a couple of cute ones of Landon and his dad and also some from going to the park. Landon was really undecisive about the slide and preferred to just walk around the jungle gym instead of playing on it. I think my kid is going to be the kid at the playground that collects rocks or something instead of playing. :) Who knows?
Other than that we are just getting ready to take our journey to Denver this coming week. Hopefully all will go well. I'll be keeping everyone up to date as things unfold. Keep us in your thoughts.
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