Our last days in country have been packed full (and I'm not talking about our suitcases... which are still not packed full! ha!) Monday we spent the morning at Polar Ocean World with our friend Amanda who is moving to America.
Her departure is a tremendous loss for our whole family. Her years with us were just a precious gift.
From there we headed straight to John Paul's final speech appointment. His SLP is moving away - she was only here for 11 months and we didn't start seeing her until November. But Ms. Enri is a treasure, she connected with John Paul right away and he worked so hard with her.
His speech is now doing so great that he is no longer needing therapy (perfect, since with her departure we no longer have an available SLP). He will need to be re-evaluated in a year to make sure that his progress is consistent with peers his age. He still needs prompts with some sounds, especially /th/ and he swaps the /l/ and /r/ in a unbelievably cute way, but that's considered an age appropriate mistake that is naturally occurring in his age group so.... !!!!! John Paul's speech is now 90% intelligible and consistent with his peer group! Do you know how crazy amazing that is???
Monday evening I went to a good-bye party for Amanda and stayed up way too late for her last night as a guest in our apartment (sniff!) and then it was Tuesday.... My birthday :) whew. more later.
[i've been without a computer since the weekend and trying to get caught up now, but also needing to start loading some suitcases!]
1 comment:
John Paul's Mama had some really cute and lovely age appropriate consonant switches that I thought were so delightful too.
love Dad/Granddaddy
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