Unfortunately, due to an IFSP meeting, family vacation, and Ms. Liz's summer cold Audrey was only seen twice this month for speech therapy. She definitely packed it in for those two sessions! Exciting news.... Audrey blew a whistle for the first time on 7/30/08. She was very proud of herself. Audrey attempted to imitate me 7 times and requested objects with signs/words 5/10 times. She is identifying objects from a field of two with 60% accuracy and we have begun working on identifying pictures on flashcards as well. She is following 1 step commands with 75% accuracy. During our meeting we made a plan to work on the following concepts through talking and signs during August: up, down, eat, drink, and help. We will also be working on lip closure.
Andy & Kama- I left some oral motor exercises at Mary's for you. These will strengthen and increase awareness of Audrey's lips, cheeks, and jaw, which will in turn encourage lip closure at rest. I will leave chewy tubes in her bag next Wednesday and you can use a vibrating toothbrush for any of the vibrating exercises. I will continue to look for exercises specfic to lip closure as well! Please call me with questions!
Liz
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Exciting--today a whistle--how long 'til we can expect to hear Audrey wailing on the sax? Thanks for the oral stimulation exercises, we will use them!
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