Well the time has finally come. We are addressing Braden's speech. He recently had his 3 year well child check. His pediatrician and I talked a good deal about his speaking. This has been a pretty common topic at his Dr. visits! lol. So far we have taken the 'wait and see' approach. One of the things I LOVE about my pediatrician is that she is great to sit and talk to me! We have similar personality's so the visits are always FUN.... yeah... really. I actually find myself looking forward to when I get to see Dr. Bean! LOL Funny enough so do my kids (as long as I reasure them 6 times that they arent getting shots!)
At this last visit we were talking about his speech. To give Dr. Bean a little 'sample' I asked Braden to tell her about our trip to Disneyland. I LOVE hearing him 'talk' about our trip! He gets SO excited and SO animated. My favorite part was when he told her about the big clock (now to be totaly honest... I am not sure WHAT big clock he was talking about). He was getting all excited and suddenly put his hand up over his head then started making a clicking noise as he notched his hand around in a circle! Dr. Bean thought that was so cleaver! She just laughed and laughed while he was using his own method of 'charades' to communicate.
We decided that is is time to start looking into things a bit more. Braden is smart... he can communicate when he wants to.... but for some reason he just isn't getting the concept of sylables. So I have an appt tomorow with an Audiologist to get his hearing checked. Dr. Bean and I are both pretty sure he can hear just fine.... but that is the place to start... so that is where we are starting. I am really interested how they are going to check his hearing!! I can't wait for the results either.
What we find out tomorow determins where we go from here. Either way he is likely to be getting some speech therapy of sorts... just depends on his test where we have to go.
In truth I am a little sad. I love my little boy just the way he is. Ok so it WILL be nice to be able to understand him when he REALLY wants something and I can't figure it out.... but I will really miss his cute actions when he communicates. Sometime he will just run into the room with some big story to tell and he just goes crazy! Sounds and actions colide to make a show like you have never seen! It just makes me laugh and smile when he does this! I really hope he dosen't loose all his sound effects and actions....
I suppose they all have to grow up sometime right. That dosen't always mean that mom is ready for it when it comes... even if it is something mom has been looking forward to.
2 comments:
Tina...he will always do the actions and make sounds...that is a characteristic of little boys in general, so I don't think you have to worry about that.
I'm not sure if you knew this, but I'm a speech pathologist and I'd love to chat with you anytime, if you have any questions. If he omits syllables (which I've seen many times in little 3 year old's,) he probably has a phonological process disorder which means he's made up a "rule" in his head that says for all syllables, he'll not say them. Now he just needs to be untaught his own rule, and taught the REAL rule. It's very common and he will definitely be "retrained" it'll just take a little practice. No worries...I've see his same speech behaviors a lot!
Wow - I had no idea that he even had a speech problem. Part of living so far away I guess. Glad to hear that the test went well and that he doesn't have any hearing problems! Good luck with the next step - based on Meghan's comment, it sounds like everything will work out fine.
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