Speech and language update

Bevan finally had his appointment with the Special Education Speech Language therapist. It went really well and she said that he is actually progressing pretty well and that he doesn't need much in the way of intervention and that he'll catch up. Because he's been waiting so long to be seen (almost a year) though she will help us out with some specific assessments on speech errors and exercises to help fix them. I was glad to hear that he'll be getting better anyway, and it was affirming to hear that I've been doing all the right things because at the time his delay became apparent I felt quite guilty like as if I hadn't supported his development enough.
She praised me on the way he enjoys reading – he kept on bringing her more Maisy books to read.  Maisy is one of his very best favourites and he has about 7 or so of them.

I don’t think I’ve mentioned before, but the children have well over 200 books at the last count.  They take up 3 shelves of books.  Every night Bevan gets a minimum of 3 stories read to him.  Lately he has been “reading” a bit himself, telling me the story on each page.  He actually remembers some of the keys words.

In addition, Bevan can now recognise the numerals and letters 0-10, B, M, G.  He has a fantastic pen grip for “writing”.