Rebecca's therapy update

Rebecca has continued to add new words to her vocabulary at a rapid pace. In one month's time, she has gone from maybe 15 words to about 75, and continues to add at least one a day. Many of her words are letters, numbers, animals and the sounds they make, and names of people. Her speech therapist has instructed us to focus more on verbs and adjectives and to encourage her to put two words together as much as we can. Assuming she starts doing this in the next couple of months, she will be not need speech therapy anymore! Her pronunciation is still far from accurate, but Steve and I can usually tell what she's saying, and the therapist says she is not making any sort of abnormal mistakes, and that the mistakes should correct themselves with more practice. I'm very thankful that my worries turned out not to be a big deal, but I'm still glad that we sought professional help when we did.

Things are going well on the sensory processing front as well. I think I've decided not to get the inflatable bouncer I thought would help her (see birthday present post), after reading more about dangers of PVC. We have put an old mattress on the living room floor for her to use to get vestibular stimulation, and it has worked out fairly well, even though it doesn't have as much bounce as a bouncer or trampoline would. I think we may still consider a mini-trampoline, if I can find a used one for a reasonable price, and I think we'll probably end up getting a bigger one when she is older.

She is still having trouble taking naps, I think due to overstimulation (bedtime is much easier because she can see much less when it's dark), so we're currently researching window treatment options for her room.