F & W

Cecilia has been making so much progress in speech therapy.  Brianna, her therapist, has been working with her on the 'F', 'W' and 'K/G' sounds.  She is so close to mastering the 'F' sound; meaning she knows how to say it, and says it well with other sounds to complete words, but it is not quite automatic for her.  So, we have begun playing dumb with her to help her recognize the difference and start saying the 'f' automatically.  For example, she will say "uh-oh, shall boom!" instead of "uh-oh, fall boom!".  In this case we play dumb and ask her what "shall" is.  She is pretty quick to correct herself.  The "W' sound is coming along too.  We say "stick your lips out" a lot around here.   Here is a short video from therapy this week.  Brianna and I were cracking up, and trying not to Cecilia see us laughing.

As for the Child Find program through the school district, I am NOT in the least impressed.  We are STILL waiting for her to be evaluated.  We went back for what was supposed to be her evaluation in early August, but it turned out to be a pre-screening to see if she would qualify for the evaluation.  Guess what- she qualifies for an evaluation, duh!  When we first got pulled back they tried to do the hearing and vision screening again.  I sharply told the lady that we had already done this.  Then the pre-screening was done in the middle of an empty bank of cubes with construction going on around us and people coming in to start their work day.  Not exactly what I would call an environment conducive to evaluating a three year olds cognitive and verbal abilities.  When the lady came out with the results of the screening, I was biting my tongue so hard because everything she told me was written in the form they had me fill out back in May.  I was pretty livid when we left.  Supposedly she will have a full evaluation done on September 14.  That will be over four months from when I first called to have her evaluated.