More Therapy Updates

Yesterday, we had Dougie's evaluation with his group speech therapist. It was an interesting session. I went in expecting to hear that Dougie was far advanced compared to the other kids and that he no longer needed the program. That wasn't quite the message though. He has definitely made some improvement but he has the verbal ability of a 23 month old which is still a notable delay. They feel that he would be best to stay in the program for at least another term.

In exciting news, Dougie's private therapist feels that he has much such great progress in his PROMPT therapy that she wants to increase the number of sessions he's getting. He should be able to retain more and make faster progress with the increased sessions so we're very excited to get started on that.

All this means that he'll be doing speech 4 times a week starting in the fall. We've arranged it so that it will only be on Tuesdays and Thursdays though so he'll still have lots of free time to go to play dates, take classes and just be a kid.





Speaking of being a kid, Dougie has finally learned the name of one of his friends. Her name is Lauren and I go to the gym with her mom and she's in our playgroup. Whenever we get near the gym or her house, Dougie starts saying "Hey Lori", "Lori?", "LLLLOOOORRRRIIIIII." I'm so excited that he's bonded to someone and is excited to see them! Our next step will be saying her name correctly.