Lily

So I thought I'd update on Lily's Early Intervention, since I am past what time I told my self I'd go to bed...good thing its still the weekend!

Lily started Early Intervention this month and I have to say with only one session I can already see improvements!! I think a lot of her delay in language had to do with that she needed to get walking out of the way and that is normal apparently, they focus on nothing else until they figure it out and now that she has I have notice her say "mama mama mama" when she wants something.

Our teacher had us work on simple directions and jaw exercises...how do you exercise a 20 month's jaw you ask? Easy! Lots of chewy foods, day old bagels, red vines left out for a few hours, beef jerky (she didn't like it) Its supposed to help her be more aware of her mouth and help her not to drool so much (yes she still does, because she hasn't figured out to swallow it.) We play the vowel game saying A,E,I,O,U over and over to help get the mouth shapes.
She had me make a box with a slit in the top to have her put things in and out to understand simple directions.
we've also been working on signing and songs with hand actions and she is picking up on them really fast. She can sign mama and milk. She learned the whole hand actions for "open, shut them" for family prayers. (I'll have to take and post a video, its so cute!) I checked out a signing time video from the library, she tried to copy all the signs when they did the review song and learned cheese it was very cute!
I really like the lady who is her teacher, she grew up in Britain and approches teaching in a different way and she really knows her stuff and makes sure I understand all that is happening to ensure I can practice with Lily. I'm really happy with the whole program, and so happy to see results so soon even if its because she got walking out of the way.