Click

Something seems to have clicked with Anna's language. She's using words much more spontaneously and she goes about narrating her day with the few words she's especially good at.

She repeats words a lot faster when I model them for her and her receptive language has sky rocketed! I've felt for a long time that she knows what I'm saying but for some reason she wasn't big on pointing and identifying objects in books. All of a sudden she's doing it and very well at that. She even identifies items that I didn't think she would know. It's very exciting!

I think Sesame Street has really helped. She watches so attentively and repeats and responds throughout the show.

I'm sure we'll have articulation issues to deal with when she's older, but for now the speech therapist said to focus on adding words to her vocabulary. With practice and exercise, the clarity will come!