Speech Therapy - Not Typical Again

Raquel had a good session with Cari this morning, although she seemed pretty aggitated at times and most of her talking was saying "no way". She scored well though.

We had another interesting speech session this afternoon. Mary is continuing to come empty handed. Fortunately, this time Raquel actually participated in the session and didn't keep her back to her the whole time. Mary played in Raquel's room with her Barbie kitchen and did a bunch of pretend play with that. She'd also follow Raquel from room to room to keep her engaged. We could tell that Raquel was taken back a bit because her routine with Mary was off, but she did really well.

At one point, I was talking to Mary about something and not giving Raquel any attention. She yelled, "Mom-meeeee" at the top of her voice. Mary was so excited to hear that. She says that this means Raquel is trying to control the behavior of others by using her words, which is pretty huge. She's been doing this for a couple of weeks but since we didn't have speech last week due to the holiday, I forgot to tell Mary. She was also happy to hear that one day last week, Raquel told me to "stop it" when I was flipping her upside down. I really have to start writing this stuff down. These little details are very important and allows Mary to give me some great input.

Mary came today with her digital camera and began taking pictures of Raquel doing activities throughout the house. She is going to be making a book of Raquel doing things and then I will give her the action language when I'm reading it with her ie. "Raquel is eating", etc. She wants to start out with me using pretty much 3 words and then adding more details later on.

And today when we were ending the session, Raquel started to walk down the hallway to go to her room. Mary said, "See ya!" and Raquel stopped, turned around and with a big smile on her face, WAVED. Sorry ABA Team. I know we're still doing the partial prompt for this. :-)