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Saturday, August 28, 2010

Owens speech evaluation

well it went good.. i wasnt sure exactly how this woman was going to get him to talk and although i have a better understanding of what she is going to try to do.. it will be interesting to see if it will work.
the *unofficial* results of his evaluation is that he has the comprehension of a 3 1/2 year old.. which i think is awesome since he just turned 2 years old. i mean i knew he was/is smart but its amazing how advanced he knows stuff when you say it to him or ask him questions. she was also greatly impressed that he actually sat still for the entire hour.. okay not always perfectly still but the when he moved to the other side of her to play in her box of toys she would say *owen back over here* and he went back and sat on his butt like a good boy.. not once did she loose him to another part of the house or to one of his toys. she was also happy that when he was mid task on something if she said his name he would stop what he was doing and make eye contact with her and than began doing what she asked him to do..
verbally of course he is very low which we already knew hence this whole evaluation thing.. she asked what words he said and to be honest there are very few that he will say.. she asked how we knew when he wanted something or wanted to know what something was.. well if hes holding a car and wants to know what it is, he will poke you to death and say *this* as in a question.. and we will say *car* and try to get him to repeat to us but he never does ~ as far as if he wants a cup of juice or *more juice* he will either bring you his empty cup and if you say in a minute he will decide when he feels that minute is up and bring you whatever he wants.. hence the other day he brought me a full gallon of milk since my *minute* was to long ~
she told me that it will take her about 2 weeks before she will be back in contact with us.. she has to grade his test and than do her paperwork side of things.. after that we will start having her work with him 2 times a week for about 30 minutes or so each time.. she is going to start with trying to get him to make letter sounds.. and than we will go from there.
so i will let you know when i get the official results and know more of what they say..
unofficially though.. i have another smart baby boy who just wont speak *lol* wyatt was the same way.. although i think his vocabulary was larger earlier on.. he just refused to say the words.
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