Arriving a little after breakfast, I was able to help her dress for her first session, this time with Hope, her speech therapist. (Helping her get dressed means getting some things from her closet so she can choose ... and she always has a definite opinion about what to wear each day. The actual on and off of apparel she does herself, for the most part.)
In speech therapy we are working on word recognition, both oral and written. For example, she has no trouble counting, but she wont know what to do if you say: "Count to ten". Similarly, if you show her the numbers 1 through 5, written out and say: "Point to the number three" she won't recognize it. However, to show how clever she still is, she will count the images she sees and point to the third one.
My brother Jim (yea, "Grandpa Jim) stopped by later in the afternoon, so I scheduled my afternoon visit to overlap a little. After he left, she had some X-rays in prep for a colon check-up tomorrow. When she finally returned, we had some nice time together and celebrated a couple of big steps, well actually one of the big steps was five steps. Yes, they had her up with a walker today and she took five steps with minimal assistance!
The other big step is, tomorrow she can move from pureed food to something requiring a little chewing.
Progress, progress, progress. The girl is making progress.
Monday, July 6, 2009
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When I visited on Saturday I had just come from volunteering at a 4th of July event hosted by my church and was wearing a T-shirt that said "Fun in the Sun" on it. While I was sitting on her bed next to her she read those words out loud! Later she was a little tired and was starting to doze off so she said to me "Why don't you take a nap?" so we both enjoyed a little shut-eye before it was time to take her to dinner and say good bye.
ReplyDeleteSo happy to hear of all the progress!
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