Lots of Progress!

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I haven't posted since the first of the year. At that point I had just

enrolled my daughter in gymnastics and started giving her ProEFA

consistently. At Christmas she still wasn't making many aproximations.

Now, only 3 mths later she can aproximate ANY word her speech therapist

gives her. They actually want to decrease her speech therapy to only twice

a week (to which I opposed) but that just shows how well she is doing. I

can now pretty much understand anything she says to me, as long as I pay

attention to any visual clues included. She is also using up to 4 word

sentences occasionally...which just blows me away as I can clearly recall a

few mths ago her struggling for just one word. As far as gymnastics that has

become her highlight of the week. Its a chore to convince her to take her

leotard off afterward. The teachers spot her in everything she does and she

gets lots of individual attention. Also, they really emphasize that you

" win " whenever you try your best and the kids are awarded accordingly. If

you try hard, keep a positive attitude you are awarded after each class, no

matter how well you actually did. Because of this she feels like she is

excelling at something, which in turn has helped her socially. Gymnastics

start at 3 so if you want to check into that, especially for girls as

opposed to karate (not saying karate is bad for girls!, just thought to

mention this as an alternative) But as said, each center is different,

so you would have to check them out.

Good luck to everyone...keep on keeping on...one of these days you will hear

your little darling tell you they love you. It's the best feeling,

especially when you've waited over 3 yrs to hear it!

Hannah - mom to LeAnne (3, last eval was severe apraxia, DSI, hypotonia) and

5)

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