bye
bus
book
baby
mom
Something Cicily's speech therapist said a few weeks ago got me thinking. Cis' brain has a hard time getting all those complex mouth muscles to work in just the right order to say words. (And not even to mention the repaired cleft palate, trach, small jaw, open bite, and hearing loss - sometimes speech for this girl seems impossible! Thank goodness she signs!!) Sometimes Cicily will say a near-perfect version of a word and we'll get all excited and ask her to say it again and she'll smile huge and try and nothing much comes out. So, I asked her speech therapist what she thought about maybe just focusing on getting Cicily to say (verbally) 5 words at a time. That way maybe her brain and muscles could get some "memory" going on and Cicily could be successful with at least 5 words. Her therapist thought it was a good idea, so we came up with 5 words that started with similar sounds and were important to Cicily. For the next few months Cis will be working on these 5 words: bus, bye, book, baby, mom.
So, next time you see Cicily, try to get her to SAY bus, or say bye to you! She always gets really excited to try!!
3 comments:
That's a great idea. We did that with Em with her signs and it really worked well. Good luck!
She is going to rock at those five words!! Such a simple thing to work on and I love it :) She seriously is a miracle. And so beautiful!!
I'm sure you're already doing this, but I wanted to mention the trick that helped the most when my oldest son was struggling with speech... a mirror. Once he could watch himself trying new words, he picked them up 100 times faster.
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