Re: walking/talking-

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Thanks for the reply-we are really excited and so pleased with the

Ed team evaluation. More than likely we will only do speech therapy

twice a month just due to our work schedule-unless we find a weekend

or night therapist.

With regards to the Smo's, we love them and david refuses barefoot

time. Its almost as if he knows that they really help him with

support. He gets frustrated when he is barefoot because he tends to

be wishy washy with the ankle support so he will crawl to his smos

and bring them to us to put on. He wears the sure step smo's which I

highly recommend. They are made here in south bend, but he sells

them all over the country. He reminds me a lot of -he's

an orthotist who's son needed smo's and when he saw what was on the

market-he knew he could make something better. Here's a link to his

website so you can check it out:

http://www.surestep.net/

As much as I hate the fact that he is in a brace(s) almost 24/7, i

know that in the long run both help him. He's had them for a month

and they have yet to cause/inhibit his progress with his club feet.

HTH,

kathleen

mom to david 8/28/04 fab 12/7

> Hi All-

> This one kind of goes back to an OT about speech delay. Our son

> david is in the First Steps program in Indiana and has been for a

> year now. He just had his one year evaluation where they

redetermine

> his eligibilty. He was observed by a speech and language

pathologist

> (I had a speech delay and since it's free, I figured it didn't

hurt)

> and a physical therapist. Since he isn't walking on his own,

> obviously he is still behind in his gross motor skills. It did

> surprise us a little to find out he is slightly delayed in speech.

> The way the SLP explained it is for the first 18months-the brain

is

> busy figuring out how the body works, etc. and once it has that

> figured out, it begins working on the speech/communication.

is

> at the 24 month range for non-verbal communication, however, for

> verbal he is at 12 month old. He is now eligible for speech

therapy

> once a week. The SLP says walking/talking tend to go hand in hand

> which makes sense especially when she explained the whole brain

> being focused on certain tasks. I wanted to share this with the

> parents who think there child may have a speech delay-it doesn't

> hurt to have your child evaluated and with the Early INtervention

> team-they are soooo wonderful and fun to work. We had the same PT

do

> this year's eval as the initial one last year and she couldn't

> believe how well david was doing and what a handsome little guy he

> has grown up to be.

>

> On a more exciting note, my little stinker is sneakily walking on

> his own. He won't walk to us when we ask but the minute we turn

our

> backs on him, he will be taking 6 or 7 steps towards something.

> Yeah!!

> HTH,

> Kathleen

> mom to 17months bcf fab 12/7

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