Speech

Avery has been receiving speech therapy pretty much since she was born. Until she was 3 we were in a program called First Steps. Therapists used to come to our house or to her school each week and work with her. Now that she is 3 we are part of the public school system. So each week I take her to a speech session with a therapist in the public school. She is in this therapy with two other 3 year olds. The other two kids can articulate the words they know better then her but her vocabulary is better then theirs, so it kind of works out well. So far she is VERY shy at speech, so shy she does not talk at all and I find myself saying things like, “I promise she does talk.” Miss Amy (therapist) is very good though and very understanding. Av lately though, has started to come out of her shell. Last week she named every color on the rainbow correctly when Miss Amy asked her and a bunch of animals including a flamingo. She knows concepts too, like which object is bigger or some opposites. Almost every day she does something that makes me stop and think, “how does she know that?”