Update with Jenna's Speech Therapy.

mummy2girls wrote: Well today went ok. A little bad news but it can be fixed.

The lady that assessed Jenna said that she is defentily behind in her speech. She is at a 2 year old level. What she noticed is that she isnt putting in her last constanents(sp?) such as.. play instead of playing, eat instead of eating, etc etc... For example her sentence will sound like.. I eat food. Instead of I am eating..

She Can't figure out the word NOT. so she wants me to work with her by saying this is hard and this is not hard, This is not a boy, etc etc etc.

She said that she needs individual sessions where they work on her words for a few weeks and then put her in a group session once she gets better with her pronuctuation(sp?).

Also... she is referring her to a specialist because of her drooling. Plus she will need to see someone because she cant do things on purpose. For example... they asked for her to touch her tongue to her top lip and she cant really figure it out. or move your tongue side to side. She had to point to her left cheek and say Jenna move your tongue here then jenna will. she cant just move it backa nd forth. So she thinks that is related to the drooling as well.

Another thing she noticed that she was kinda worried about is...when she asks jenna to point at a certain item on a page that is standing in front of her, Jenna cant get it on the mark she has to do it a coupel times in order to get the mark, plus she cant stand on one foot unless she is holding onto a table or object:( This scares me...

She reassured me that this can be fixed... She is sending me activites to work with jenna and her dayhome provider as well. because it will be at least 4 weeks before they can get her in to therapy...

so bad news but good because it can be fixed.

kayla's mama replied: Its good news that it can be fixed. Hope everything works out, which I'm sure it will

3_call_me_mama replied: Glad to hear you finally got some answers adn hope the therapy helps. HUGS! You're doing a great job MOM!

A&A'smommy replied: awww well I'm glad they can fix it!!! I agree your doing a great job!!

ediep replied: hhmmm very interesting. I am so happy to hear that she just needs to work on these things and they will be corrected!

BAC'sMom replied: Good News

kimberley replied: i am sorry. i hope everything works out.

1lilpeanut2love replied: Great to hear! I hope you can get it corrected and taken care of!!

My3LilMonkeys replied: I hope all of the therapy works out well for her.

mammag replied: I'm sure she will do great in the therapy and everything will be fixed up. Cade had to go for a year. When he started you could barely understand anything he said (well, I could because I knew his language but no one else could). After the year (this was when he was 5) he spoke really well. One benefit was that the speech therapy seemed to help him in learning phonics because of all the focus on sounds.

There are times when Cade will slip up on a sound and I have to correct him and he still is a little drooly at times (nothing major that anyone else notices) but it is unbelievable what speech therapy can do.

She'll do fabulously! Good for you for doing something about it. Some people just let it go and assume they will grow out of it eventually. You're a great Mommy!!!

holley79 replied: Glad everything went well and it can be fixed.

gr33n3y3z replied: I'm glad they can help her

lisar replied: I was in soeech therapy all the way till I was in the 5th grade. It helped me alot. I could pronouce the R sound or the G sound. My G would come out like a D. And the R was all messed up. It was fixed with speech threapy. I hope everything works out for you Shelly. And Jenna will do just fine.