We had our speech assessment the beginning of the month, Nick remained completely silent through the whole thing! But he is starting to chatter a little bit. Just no actual words yet. But I think that mama and dada are going to come soon. He is making those sounds when he is really angry and babbling in his crib at night.
I asked, but it doesn't count.
I even caught Katheryn trying to get Nick to talk. I could hear her yelling in the van the other day. When I opened up the door she is saying to Nick - "Say Daddy, Say DADDY! DADDY" He of course just smiled and laughed at her.
Dadda is his favorite sounding word to say. In the middle of the night when he wakes up and is very upset that he is awake it is dadadadada that he's saying in his VERY unhappy voice! But I don't actually think he is calling us - yet.
I made sure to ask for a copy of his assessment when we left - something that I have to keep reminding myself! (So that I have records for everything, instead of them being all over the place).
I received it this year.
Pretty much what we expected.
I really, really hate hearing that he is delayed in everything. But like mobility, language is pretty obvious and it's obvious that by 15 months (wow - are we there already!) he should have a word or 2.
So bad news is that he is severely delayed in his expressive language (using language) - well duh! He has no words. But in reading the report it said that he is showing some 'scattered communication skills' in the 12-15 month range. So that is good.
That's another reason why getting the report is helpful, I can go back and read this stuff instead of just remember that she said something about some talking stuff, but I can't remember. And the words severely delayed just repeating over and over. Because he is showing improvement - that's all I ask.
But his other stuff - his understanding and pre-language is there and in the appropriate range. So he understands what we say, what we want him to do ect.
Have I mentioned that I hate these assessments. They make me feel so dumb.When I'm asked a really simple question like 'does he point to action words in books?' What?! I have no idea. Oops, he's supposed to be doing that?
But we have a plan. Kyle and I have some workshops to go to this month. We have a parent session where we learn all kinds of different things to do, and the a couple of parent and baby sessions where we practice. And reassess in 4-6 months.
I got a picture book for Nick to look through - full of HIM! He seems to be enjoying it!
This is just the first of what is Nick doing posts - more to come - I promise!
