Winds of Change!

Well guess who is doing great talking! Its still hard for me as he has no where near the vocabulary that Nathan and Caitlin had at this age, but considering where we have been he is doing great. So great that I am going to take him to speech tomorrow and Tuesday and we are going to start transitioning out of speech. He has been going to speech two to three times a week for 18 months!!!!! I think I will go down to once a week for the next month and then be done in time for summer! OH yeah!!!!!! Oh yeah!
So here goes
Here is Owen's most recent evaluation received today
  "So I wanted to share the most recent evaluation information I have with you.  I completed an articulation evaluation and he continues to demonstrate errors for /l,r,ch,f,v,th,sh,z,k/ in at least one position at the single word level.  These are all age-appropriate errors however and with these errors he scores within Normal Limits for a child his age.  I also completed an oral motor screening.  He continues to have difficulty with isolated tongue tip movements and in combining two movements.  He earned a score of 32 and 33 is cut-off level for a 3 year old.  I think some of his deficit was motivation as much as inability.  I think he does have adequate oral motor skills for speech production.    The final area I assessed was his spontaneous speech.  He demonstrated a Mean Length of Utterance of 3.8 words which is typical of children 41 to 46 months of age.  In December his MLU was 1.4 words so he has come a long way.  He also was 92% intelligible and 75% intelligibility is expected for a 3 year old."   

          SO there you have it , Owen is talking age appropriately and so this summer we can spend everyday at the pool and beach instead of two days dragging everyone to speech YIPPEEEE , Happy Dance!

 

So Happy after I got this email we went out for a celebration ice cream trip to DQ which everyone enjoyed I also have so many pictures to download. We had a great weekend with Aunt Ali and Grandma, so tomorrow I will be updating the blog after our trip to speech! SO now that I can stop worrying about Owen and speech and I can switch my mom worry meter over to other things. Lets see tomorrow morning I am going to worry about Lindsay all day. She is giving her brother her kidney tomorrow. I explained to the kids that we wouldn't be seeing her for a few weeks and that mommy and grandma were going to hold down the fort. Caitlin asked what a kidney does, Owen explained that a kidney is a kitty cat and goes meow! We have really deep conversations around here!
Then there is Nate, ohhh Nate..... he was sick a few weeks ago and still hasn't regained his appetite you know its not like he ever had one. So now we are drinking Pedisure you know its 13.00 a 6 pack!!! We also have to take trips to DQ where I get the other kids small ice cream cones but get him a large and pray no one notices! I explain to them they must have made a mistake. Yes the ice cream cone below Owen has is a small!! You can imagine what the large looks like. So Nathan has been having allergy asthma problems, and he has been waking up early like before 6! So this week I will focus on Nathan and yes Caitlin she is fine, she is always fine! I got a letter from her teacher on Friday she is reading at a level N, I looked it up and that's the end of second grade hahahahaha!