How are your children doing in therapy?

[Twintastic]

I was wondering if your children are receiving any type of therapy and how they are doing.

My girls get PT 2 times a week and Speech 1 day a week. They seem to be improving all the time. They are so close to sitting independently. Audrey can for a longer time but Emily likes to fling herself backwards. :lol They are rolling around EVERYWHERE!!

How is everyone else doing??

[Frenchy]

Kristi it sounds like they are doing awesome!!! That's so great to hear. I am still waiting for our Eval for Evie. We have been assigned a case worker and now we are just trying to set up the initial eval.

[Mingle Bells]

:woot for A and E!!
Joshua still goes to PT 1-2x per month. Right now we are working on strengthening his abs for his surgery in June. AND we got his wheelchair! I signed up on line at a few sites that take donated chairs and find a home for them. We found a really nice one in IA. Steve drove down and picked it up last week!

[Moodyzblu]

Kristi thats wonderful !!

My boys have speech once a week plus EI group twice a week. They are finally trying to put words together and can communicate SO much better every day. I love to hear what they come out with . :lol

[Twintastic]

Min that is so awesome. I didn't realize there were places out there that would help like that. How does he like his chair?

I am so glad that everyone is doing great in their therapy. I think it has truly worked wonders on my girls.

[Free Bird]

Megan is getting PT 2x week and OT 1x week.
She was doing great and went from not doing much of anything to consistantly rolling, crawling, standing and now cruising in 6 months! :thud Her PT is going way better than her OT. She still has issues with her hands and what makes it worse is that she seems to have sensory issues with having her hands touched so that makes it difficult for the OT to do stuff with her. But they're trying.

Unfortunately, someone dropped the ball and didn't file for a referral (to continue pt/ot) on time with the insurance co so she has been without her therapy for a month now. I spoke to them yesterday and the girl I spoke to is hoping to get it all taken care of by next week. :crossed I've learned so much from her therapists that I have been doing it at home with her so she doesn't revert back.

I'm so happy to hear that everyone is doing so well. Kristi you're girls have come such a long way (as if I had to tell you) and they are truly little miracles. They they are not proof that Miracles happen I don't know what is.

Min, I'm so glad you were able to get a chair for Josh without having to shell out a fortune. Please keep us posted on whenthe surgery is so I can say a prayer for him and you guys.

[Iggy]

We have speech therapy once a week. We have spent the last month switching therapists and trying to get the boys into the school district's program, which is like a preschool where they'd get speech in a group setting 5 days a week. DH and I think that might help them to talk because Mommy wouldn't be there. We've had two intakes for that so far, and next month we go back in two more times for one-on-one evals with the therapy and neurology teams there and then we find out if they get accepted and MAYBE by May they might be able to start :roll Typical school district. They have to have a pretty significant delay in more than one area to get into the preschool, and they really are only delayed in expressive language. They may let them in anyway since they are 2.5 and have no words.

The new therapist finally got over here yesterday. We like her (not that we didn't like the last one, we just weren't seeing any progress and she and I agreed maybe a change would help them). She seems like she really gets the problem. Older lady, our last therapist was younger than me. Just have to give it more time. They still don't have any real words but they're starting to make deliberate noises, not just incidental to being excited. Ba, ga, da, ma, na, ta, ha, and pa are the distinct noises I hear. No vowels other than a, and the occasional EEEEEEE shriek. Still can't get them to blow air out their mouths.

[2littlelovebugs]

Iggy, my first dd had a problem with not being able to blow out of her mouth. She had been born with a cleft in her soft palate, which was fixed, but it still caused her problems with speech.

Sometimes, to help her blow out of her mouth, we would plug her nose, just so she could get the "feel" for it. I'm sure they're already doing all the bubbles, blowing a cottonball or feather across a table, blowing bubbles into milk with a straw, etc. Keep up the good work. Once they can blow out of their mouths they will really be able to make a lot more sounds than they do even now.

Sounds like everyone's kids are doing awesome. Isn't it great to see progress? :yay

[Mingle Bells]

:hyper What a great thread :luv

Progress is such a great thing!!

Kristi, he hasn't even seen it yet. He really doesn't need it until after the surgery. I would use it now if we went someplace that required a lot of walking from him, though. A stroller just isn't cutting it anymore.

[jraptwins]

Kristi - sounds like the girls are doing fantastic! :woot

The boys are doing well. Jake is learning new words daily which is fun (and not so fun when he bumped his head into the dining room table and it sounded like he said a very naughty word - sigh:) :roll PT/OT is once/wk for both and Jake is doing great but Joe is lagging due to his vision impairment. It's just hard to teach him how to actively play with things that he can't see well so he prefers to just chew on them. He doesn't have any words yet either but he loves to babble and act like he's conversing with you which is cute.

Do you have any new pics of the girls? PM me if you do as I feel like I haven't seen any updated pics in a while. Or I'll check out your website if you have pics out there :) Thanks!!! Always thinking of everybody in their journey through the world of PT/OT/ST and beyond!!!

Jen

[Iggy]

I'm sure they're already doing all the bubbles, blowing a cottonball or feather across a table, blowing bubbles into milk with a straw, etc.

Yeah, we've tried all that but they haven't really gotten it. After about a month of working on the blowing-air thing, Chris started blowing air out of his nose sometimes.