Wanted to post part of our private speech therapy report from March 30. Although this report is only six weeks old, Lily's speech continues to change rapidly.
Lily has improved her ability to follow two part directions and auditory memory tasks though listening alone. We will be expanding this goal to include three part auditory memory tasks and two step directions with early concept words and prepositions. During times of breakdown through listening alone, Lily typically needs only repetition with visual cues to follow through appropriately. She responds well to clues that help lead her to the correct answer.
Her expressive language continues to develop nicely. She participated in formal assessment this quarter using the Cottage Acquisition Scales to look at her syntactical development. Lily demonstrated 80% correct use or better of the following grammatical markers: present progressive -ing, plural-s, possessive-s, use of subject and personal pronouns (I, you, me,he, etc), possessive pronouns, negative forms (no, not, don't can't), variety of wh- questions, and beginning spatial concepts (in, on). She also showed the following forms that appeared to be emerging at this time: use on uncontractable "to be" verbs (is, are), contracted is/are, past tense-ed, use of can and do in question form, irregular past tense, and spatial prepositions (under, above, behind).
In addition to working on her expressive and receptive language, we've also targeted her auditory skill development this quarter. Lily has improved in her ability to discriminate words though listening alone that differ in only one feature. We've focused on words that have sounds that differ only in their place of articulation (pat vs cat). At last data collection, she was able to discriminate these types of words with 100% accuracy, a huge improvement from last quarter in a closed set of two. We will continue to work on this level of discrimination in larger sized sets.
Fab results, bet you are really thrilled, the littlies just keep surprising us with what they can do!!
I appreciate the info on your blog as this journey can get a little overwhelming at times.
Hugs
Posted by: Carolyn | May 24, 2010 at 11:17 PM
Thanks for your note!
Yes we share all this to try and help others from feeling so overwhelmed. There are definitely hills and valleys, but little brains are amazing.
We climb, climb, climb all the time, but are now getting to "enjoy the view".
Posted by: Lily's Mom | May 25, 2010 at 12:15 AM