Leah, Kurt and Karter

Welcome to our family blog!

Friday, February 19, 2010

Karter's Speech Therapy

Today was a very busy day for Karter. He saw his Speech therapist at 9 am. He hasnt seen her in 6 months. Hes imporved alot since than. He uses lots of words and full sentances now. She told me that his speech is fine now our problem now is that hes developed a stutter. We are not sure if its a normal stutter from a 3 yr old. Some kids have a problem getting all there sentance out right away so they repeat a word a few times till they know what they want to say. Example... Mommy why why why is the sky blue? If its a mental problem thats creating the stutter than it would usually be more like this. Mommy wh wh wh why is the sky blue? Karter has the first one but becuase this is happening on a daily bases, a couple times a day his therapist wants to make sure it doesnt progress into something worse. So we go back in March for some more intense testing. My other concern with Karter was his colors. He doesnt remember them. I have been working hard on them for a couple months now and they arnt clicking for him. I can tell him that the apple is red and than tell him a bannana is yellow and ask him what color the apple is and he says " I don't know Mommy, tell me?". I know this isnt a major concern and the therapist told me today that because colors are and inadamite object some kids dont get what we are saying. To them they are seeing the apple or bannana.. not the color. She said that if we can work on comparing the color to the same object so he always associates it with that. He will start to remember. So we are going to work on that. Along with this sutter. She told me to praise him when he works threw it and let him know that he had a smooth sentance. Never tell him what he needs to slow down, or stop talking or correct him. Let him work threw it on his own and praise when he gets it right. She says he will associate the good with the proper speaking. So we have alot to work on... I am hoping that in the next month we have even minimal improvment. We love our boy so much and we know he will work threw this. -x0x0-

No comments:

Post a Comment