Speech Therapy

Since Mason's hearing test went well we proceeded with acquiring Speech Therapy.

He's going to start attending every Wednesday AM starting next week. She wants to add another day once a week to make 2 30 minute sessions per week. I'm excited, it can't hurt, but it can help in SO many ways! They want to first work with him on imitating. He really just by passed the imitation stage. He never REALLY played peek-a-boo as an infant, patty cake, or other similar "copy" games. They think if we can get him imitating us, facial expressions, gestures, etc. then we may get him to start imitating sounds and words.

He also has an "Early Intervention" therapist. (I think she's much like an Occupational Therapist aka "OT".) But she'll come to our house once a week for an hour and work with Mason on similiar things. She'll teach me how to work with him to help his speech. She gave the example of learning interactive songs (kinda like "This little Piggy") I guess.

Like I said, we're excited to have someone from the outside help. It gets frustrating for all parties envolved with the lack of communication. Had I known this was going to be a problem, I would have started him on signing earlier. We're going to start now, though, and include Nolan! I wonder if Nolan will speak before Mason ;-) Just kidding!