Parker has speech therapy on Tuesdays. We’re lucky. His speech therapist is superb. Parker loves to wear his passey muir valve and really let his voice be heard.
Today’s lesson began with some time at the mirror. This is were Parker works on his lip placement and watches what the therapist does and tries to mimic it.
Um…obviously somebody needs to clean that mirror. I’ll make note of it for the cleaning fairies. (I wish.)
I don’t know about your therapy sessions, but ours always include a hug or two.
Deciding on which picture to ‘tap’ and then listen to it ‘talk’. Some of his choices include: watching a DVD, going down the slide, and reading a book.
Parker chose to bounce on his big exercise ball.
There is no telling how many miles this teeny tiny designer hiney and giant exercise ball have put in together.
But I do know that each and every single one of them were accompanied by a giant smile.
Tell me about your kid’s therapies? Do they come to you? Do you go to them? What kind of things do your therapists do to engage your child?
We have pt…Christie comes to us once a week. Such a blessing…this coming week she’s going to meet us at nearby park for some climbing
Right now, B is just in speech (graduated from PT at the beginning of August! Woo hoo!), every Thursday. We drive about 25 minutes there and back and have for 5 years now. We’ll start OT again as soon as they hire a new therapist, so until then we work on things at home and at school. B has global delays and speech apraxia, BTW.
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Lauren only sees an ST in school for about a half hour a week. She wasn’t approved for any more private ST hours because she’s “cured”. We just discontinued OT because we weren’t seeing progress and Lauren really didn’t like the OT.
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Makenzie gets 4 hours of PT per week at home and one hour every other week in the clinic. She also has 3 hours of OT in our home and one hour or hippo therapy with her OT at a local ranch. Her speech therapist comes to the home twice a week. I am so thankful for all of her therapist! They are the best!
We go to our ST once month, because the rest of the time I’m the ST, haha. She does DIR Floortime therapy with her speech therapy, so has all sorts of cool swings, slides, trampolines, ball pits, etc in each room. It really helps the child loosen up, relax and work really well. It’s a great concept!
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Brooke receives speech therapy at home 3 times/week and speech at school every other week. She also receives occupational therapy one time per week and they also come to our home. Thank goodness they do, or we would constantly be at therapy!
My son goes to speech theraphy once a week. We go there. We are supposed to go twice a week, but it’s hard for us traveling there and all as it takes a chunk out of our morning, and we are trying hard to get homeschool work done. My son has tried a new therapy recently for speech involving horns. He’s working on lip rounding by practicing blowing party type horns each day for a set number of repititions. I had never heard of the horn therapy before but we are giving it a try!