Progress Report

We started with a new (private) therapist a couple weeks ago. So we're now going 3 times a week for therapy. Ben has started to not want to go anymore. This morning he didn't want to get out of the car to go in. But eventually he did! This is the second time this has happened. It's hard having people in your face saying "fffffff" suck your lip under, put your teeth on your lip -"fffffff"
The "F" sound is really hard for him, but he does it for me at home much easier than he does at speech...so we'll keep working on it.
Today as speech with the school, the therapist wanted to work on his food issues. She brought strawberries & whipped cream. She had him pick one out, touch it, then gave him a small knife to cut it in half. She handed one to me, and she got one too... Ben started to look around and figured out she was trying to get him to eat it and he said "no!!" multiple times & wanted nothing to do with it. (He used to eat strawberries blended up). She thinks he definately has some oral sensory problems. We are going to make an appointment with the pediatrician to see if we could add some ocupational therapy in as well. The private therapist hasn't had much experience with oral sensory issues - which is disappointing...but she's willing to try some things with him.
Ben is making more of an effort to make his sounds understandable. He's really got the ending "ck, s, t, b, and almost has the sh" sound. But both my husband and I have been able to understand his sentences more. I think Ben will be glad to have a break for summer with the school therapist. Then we will just be going once a week privately. I'm hoping as he continues to get older, he'll be able to sit longer & cooperate! Sometimes it seems the more silly games during therapy , the more they loose him & he doesn't want to stop being silly. A more no-nonsense approach seems to be doing better. But I'm glad both therapist are willing to shift gears during therapy to get the best out of him. I'll try to post some videos later.

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