For the past several weeks, Nathan has been going to his private speech therapy session with Cathy. So far, Nathan has been very quiet with Cathy. At home or inside the car, he is more outgoing and very talkative. Lately, he loves to shout just for the fun of it.
While on our way to his speech therapy, he babbles, shout or just says anything to us inside the car. Once he is inside Cathy’s office, he becomes quiet. He hardly talks. He will play with the toys Cathy provides but when she tries to talk to him, he doesn’t respond. Cathy asked us if he is always quiet like this. We told her that it is unusual for him to be so quiet. To show proof that Nathan isn’t a quiet boy, I showed her a video I took of Nathan with my iPhone playing with his toys. In the video, he was very talkative and making playful sounds.
During Nathan’s speech therapy, Cathy told us that he has a good attention span for a 2 year old. After she gave Nathan a toy to play with, she noticed that he would find many different ways to play with that toy while other 2 year old kids she worked with will forget about the toy and move onto other things. She also noticed that Nathan is a deep thinker and has a certain method when he plays with his cars. He just doesn’t play with the cars but he also thinks about how to play with them like putting all of them in a single line like as if to create a train of cars.
During one of the sessions, my son did get carried away. Cathy had some plastic extendable tubes she had Nathan play with. Actually it was Cathy who started to swing the tube like as if it were a sword. So Nathan saw that and started swinging the plastic tube as well. He liked swinging the tube so much that he started to hit Cathy with it! So we told him stop hitting Cathy! 🙂
After that incident, Nathan started to say some words to Cathy like ‘fall’ and ‘oh oh’ when a toy fell on the floor.
So far, Cathy wants to see Nathan once a week. Then we will see how he has progresses after few months or so.