Today is Nathan’s first one-to-one meeting with Cathy (speech therapist). In her office, she had some toys available for Nathan to play with. Nathan isn’t shy to grab a toy but he was quiet at first with Cathy while she was trying to play with him. Eventually he warmed up a little and started saying things like ‘oh oh’ and ‘up’.
Other than evaluating Nathan’s speech, Cathy is also observing his actions, expressions, etc. She says he is so detail oriented. She saw that Nathan likes to keep the little car toys in a straight line like as if to make a train. She also observed that he has good hand coordination after seeing him put the little toy people into the car.
During the meeting, Cathy asked us how many words we think Nathan knows. So we guessed about at least 20. Some words he knows are:
mommy
daddy
bo bo (my husband’s mom)
eng (my husband’s dad)
mui mui (Nathan’s 2 yr old cousin)
up
down
oh oh
cat
cow
apple
purple
bubble
car
ball
monkey
train
choo choo
milk
tv
phone
bib
bath
bowl
spoon
chair
flower
tree
plane
hi
bye
eyes
nose
ears
mouth
open
big
book
bear
blanket
pillow
… more words I can’t remember…
He can’t say some of the words above clearly, but I would be able to understand what he is saying… after all I am his mommy. 🙂 For instance, he says flower as ‘wower’ or says spoon as ‘spo’.
But the words he says often is ‘mommy’, ‘up’ and ‘oh oh’.
Nathan is realizing who I am now. Before he would call everything mommy and he used to call himself mommy. Now, he actually knows who I am. If he wants my attention, he would say ‘mommy mommy, up’.
After the one-to-one meeting, we headed to the parent class ‘It Takes Two to Talk’. This is our last session of that class. After this, Nathan will continue to have his one-to-one meeting with Cathy then eventually start meeting with Mary (educational therapist).
Since we had a 30 min break between the one-to-one meeting and parent class, we stayed with Nathan at the day care and just watched him play.