Friday, July 17, 2009

Mmmmm Tasty!

So one of the things that we do in Speech therapy is play with a little fan that has soft blades. Miss Char blows it in Justin's face to get him to open his mouth and make different sounds into the fan. Justin just likes touching it and so she has been holding his hand to help him stop it and then enunciating the word "stop" very slowly and clearly to attempt some mimicking by Justin. Well, he opens his mouth, but he rarely makes noises yet. But it accentuates one of Justin's favorite methods for "input" being through his mouth. Of course, like any child his age, everything goes in his mouth to taste it. But when Justin is happy or excited he opens his mouth as wide as he can. And whatever is closest goes in. Often it's a chin, sometimes a foot (that would be Travis') but last night he tried something new. He licked Randy's goatee!



1 comment:

Unknown said...

wow that was quite a sensory experience I am sure : )
tooo funny!