Hey all!
It's been a while since I have posted an update on Evan's development. He's been doing speech and developmental therapy for about 4 months now and is really catching up!!!
He is about 30 months old (2 1/2 years)
On receptive language, he is right there with the 2 1/2 and 3 year olds.. that's understanding functions of objects, points to pictures when names, follows 2 step commands, understands big vs. little, in, out etc.
As far as colors, letters, shapes and numbers, he is meeting standards of 3 1/2 - 4 year olds. (Those are his PASSION)
On Speech, he is with the 3 year olds, uses all of the beginning and ending sounds pretty intelligibly.
On Expressive Language, he's more at the 24 months area... he names pictures and usues one word to desribe or ask for something.
he calls himself and others by their name, but is not using 1st person pronouns (me, mine, I) (although he sometimes says, "I'm sad"... he doesn't answer simple questions, not attempting to relate experiences, not using 2 word negative phrases such as "no want" or "no go", not using plurals by adding s, not speaking 3-4 word utterances..
Those are all typical of 2 to 2 1/2 years old. So he's getting VERY close to being on target..
So it's pretty obvious that expressive language is the area that we are working on.
In all other areas he really seems ahead so we are less worried than we were 4 months ago when he couldn't even recognize or tell us what a "ball" was. Amazing what 4 months can do!
He goes to a speech/language therapist now on Mondays as well at Carle Therapy so I'll continue to keep you posted!
