If you haven't been around Max in awhile you would be surprised to hear everything that is coming out of his mouth. Of all the therapies he is excelling the most in speech. We did our six month evaluation to review the goals we set out for him with both of his speech therapists, and it is such an answer to prayer to see all the goals he has met and surpassed in the last 6 months.
Here are a summary of a few of the goals we set/met:
- Max will add 10 new words to his vocab = goal surpassed
- Max will use pictures and communication boards to communicate needs = goal met
- Max will use words, signs and pictures to request objects/actions, protest, comment, call for attention, ask and answer questions. = goal met
- Max will improve functional communication by answering yes/no to questions = goal met
- Max will imitate 10 names of family members = goal met
Since he has excelled on all these goals he has graduated from seeing the speech therapist at Children's for the summer. We will continue to meet with our early intervention speech therapist in our home weekly.
We have established the following goals for Max to work on the next few months:
- Max will begin asking and answering "wh" questions: Where is... Who is... What is...
- Max will improve expressive language skills to say 30 different phrases of 3 or more words
- Max will begin adding - ing to his verbs - hiding, eating, running, etc..
- Max will improve speech skills by producing k/g phenomes in intial and final word positions: frog, fork, go, cup
- Max will improve speech skills by producing words with 3 syllables: Elephant, Crocodile
- Max will produce 10 words off of our families functional word list and family names
- Max will indentify and label 3 different emotions: Happy, Mad, Scary
It is such a blessing to know that he has the language skills and cognitive ability to meet these goals, now we just need to get the muscles in his mouth to perform the way he needs them to.
Feel free to quiz him the next time you see him =)
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