Perhaps not surprisingly, it’s been a bit hectic lately between Z’s speech therapy and C’s occupational therapy. The good news is that both seem to be going well. Z is coming up to his two month mark with Early Intervention and has been going to private therapy for four months now to work on his phonological process issue of Initial Consonant Deletion. During that time he’s been slowly adding on beginning sounds, first W’s and H’s, and in the past month he started adding a lot of B’s and P’s. Things seemed to have clicked for him and he’s been able to segment words much more easily, either repeating after a model or segmenting words entirely himself to be able to get both the beginning and the end. We’re really thrilled with Z’s progress and that he’s been putting two words together more often. All of a sudden he seems to have more to say. It may never be quiet around here again…
C has been going to occupational therapy for almost a month now and his last appointment is next week. The OT has worked on his hand strength and sensory integration. It’s up to us to continue the work at home, including the brushing program. Also, on the OT’s recommendation, I checked out The Out-of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder from the library and need to start reading that. I feel like we hopefully have the sensory piece under control, but am left wondering about attention issues. C’s sensory profile showed attention/distractibility to be an issue and C’s teacher has said she’s also noticed it, in particularly when he needs to work independently. His mind often wanders and he’s left off task.
It’s ironic, because I was always worried about C being mislabeled with ADD due to the overlap with gifted traits. Now that I actually have a concern that he may have an issue with ADD, the OT turned out to be completely dismissive about it. It may be because she didn’t see any attention issues in her brief sessions with C and could only go by that. So I guess we’ll just have to see how things go. C is still waiting to be evaluation by an OT at school, which may give us more answers. It may be that the issue is more with C’s school environment than with C himself.
