A World of Difference - Speech Therapy Session 8/22

Today's speech session was brilliant (at least for the first 40 minutes). Peanut showed off his new words, got pronunciations we have been working on for weeks and tried brand new words successfully at random and when he didn't get the right tongue position, he fixed it really quickly and on his own. His speech therapist kept looking at me with this expression that said "did you switch kids on me?". Last week, he used his speech therapists name for the first time ever but it took us the entire session to figure out that was what he was saying. He was calling her "ninny" for Christine and today when he was leaving he simply said "Bye Ninnine. See you".

The last 20 minutes was spent in a typical 2 year old shut down where he would only shake his head or answer no when we asked him to play. Then at the very end, he started reading his favorite book Pout Pout Fish with his SLP and he opened up again. It was fine although I hate to waste any time of the 60 minutes a week we get for his speech therapy.

Papa Bear and I were discussing his progress at dinner and we just really feel strongly that this awesome progress in just one week isn't random. It is either the increased fish oil supplement (we doubled his dosage) or the removal of the HFCS and other modified corn products or a combination of both. We are so excited and proud of our little Peanut.

I started reading a book called "What's Eating Your Child?" and it is really opening my eyes to a lot of things. These foods or lack of nutrition (fish oil) isn't what is causing his apraxia, but apraxia is a neurological issue. Keeping his brain clear of anything that isn't beneficial for growth and adding safe supplements that aid in brain development seem like a sure way to aid in his treatment.