Ryder attended Speech Therapy this week, but was not interested in participating in learning new sounds and/or words. His assigned homework: review words he has learned, and continue to master them.
To be honest, it's hard to see progress between each session. The first question we are asked at each session is "What is new?". And, for the most part, very little changes week-to-week. Ryder has picked up some sounds, and a handful of words, but he remains primarily non-verbal. And, it's hard. It's hard to see our little boy struggling to communicate. Tonight, as he ate dinner, he kept trying to tell us something, but we couldn't figure it out. We made every guess imaginable, and none of them were correct. In the end, we just had to say "okay, thanks for telling us Ryder". I mean, really. That's not okay. He tried so hard, but it really was not something we could decipher. And, that is hard.
We are looking into supplementing his Speech Therapy with a private therapist who would provide the therapy at his school (through the school year, then we will have to make other arrangements). Ryder does participate with the therapist at Primary Children's, but he doesn't seem to have a great connection with her. We're sure it's a combination of many things - in a small room, having an entire closet full of new (to him) toys tempting him, not really knowing her outside of her asking him to make sounds/say words, etc. We haven't made any official decision, but it is an option we are considering.
Apraxia of Speech is hard. Very hard.
One-step-at-a-time.
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