Speech: Week 3

Prince has been going to speech for 3 weeks now. The lady is wonderful. She has a lot of patience with him. I have decided to document his journey to talking in my blog. I do not want to come across as the pushy type to get my son to blab. I understand that once he is able to communicate to the world it might never stop. I am aware that one day I could be cursing myself because he will not hush up. I know these things. At this point they are all worth it to stop his frustration of life. He has a rough time communicating with others, kids his age and adults. As any parent would, I want my son to be normal and able to play with other kids without the worry of getting sued because be bit someone. why do I fear this? Prince has done it before! He has bitten his sister and other kids he plays with because he doesn't choose to use his words or he will say them at the wrong time.
Prince is a very smart child. He just doesn't talk for whatever reason. I have had 2 people that were testing him (speech & pt) tell me that they do not think he is autistic and it is just a speech issue. That is what I hope for. There are days where I wonder if he could be in the spectrum. He has great days and bad days.

So on with the speech. It is very hard for me to be in there with him because he gets so frustrated and wants me to fix everything. He learns and does better once I leave. Some days I will stay and others I will head home. Living only 3 minutes away this is nice since SD goes on workups soon.

We are going to try to start him twice a week so he can have more time with the speech teacher. I really think it will be beneficial to him, the speech teacher agreed.

This week my homework was to talk a lot around him. He needs to hear me talk and what I say. So that I will do. Prince, can say some words. The catch, when you tell him to! He will not use them on his own. He only says the first part. He doesn't finish a word.

On with our journey. I hope that if you read this with the same issues that I have i can be of some help.