Hey Everyone!
I hope you had a great weekend. We did a lot of Olympic-watching, staying up late, and sleeping in every morning. It was a good one!
Today, Ashley and I are hosting TUESDAY TALK! The third Tuesday of every month we invite you to join us and chat about anything and everything!
I truly feel like we’re all girlfriends here chatting about things going on in our lives. Each month, I’m trying to bring you a legit question I’d for sure be asking if we were at my favorite lunch spot possibly eating a bacon and candied jalapeno pimento cheese. {Yes, on second thought. We’d definitely be eating that.} So I love hearing your responses and truly take them to heart.
Last month, we talked about the very important topic of WHERE DO YOU PLACE YOUR KEY FOB. {I’m kidding on the “VERY IMPORTANT”, but I know I would have asked you that question over lunch. :)} And you guys were passionate about it.
The topic today might not trigger those same feelings, but I’m hoping some of you passionate mamas, teachers, or special friends know what I’m talking about. And you help a sister out!
I’m gonna ask the question, set the stage, and ask you one more time.
To anyone out there with any speech background, what else can we be doing to speed up Britt’s speech progress? I’m talking certain books to read, any I-Pad games you recommend, just anything you can think of?
To give you a little background, my oldest three kiddos began talking at an early age and talked pretty much all day long, non-stop. I never even thought about speech with them. They all talked really early and a lot, so I’m a rookie in this field.
Britt very early on started saying, “Mama”. {From what I’ve read this is very common for cleft kiddos.} She also says, “Uh-oh, yeah, and hi” on her own without any prompting. She goes to speech therapy once a week where they’re working on receptive language which I seriously think she’s nailing if I’m being honest and bragging just a bit. #mombragmoment The therapist is also working on all kinds of sounds, combining some sounds, and repeating sounds like “Papa, baa baa, Dada”.
My mom is in town this week and her grandma name is, “T-Nonnie”. We’ve shortened it and have worked on Britt saying, “Nona” and she’s mastered it! She also said, “Nixon” which we weren’t even really working on. Nix would have been stoked with a “NIX” sound. haha! But she said it twice and it sounded great!
All this to say, I feel like she’s starting to make some major strides with her speech and I know there have to be so many resources out there that I just don’t know about. If you have any suggestions for resources that would help, please let me know!
I have a girlfriend who told me to read the same “100 Beginning Words” book over and over. But the book we have has SO MANY WORDS she doesn’t know. Maybe I should keep this up? OR maybe not yet?
I want to do everything I can to foster her language so please let me know your thoughts! And I’m hoping other moms, caregivers, family members, friends, or others might get some ideas from this post for kiddos in their lives as well.
Thank you for this little space where we can all help one another! I’m looking forward to reading your comments!
Thank you!
XO
Thank you!
XO
