Speech Therapy

Miss Sarah has been working on some vowel-consonant combinations with Justin.  He can do well beginning with the consonant, but this changes it up and makes the consonant sound the end sound.  She worked on vowels first and she gave us some "cues" to use to get Justin to make the sound.  Like to make the "eee"  sound, she touches the corners of her lips, and "o" (like "boat") she circles her index finger around her lips.  Justin does very well with this, and he even has the order of the vowels memorized so Miss Sarah had to switch them up a bit!   She did the same thing with consonants and now they are working in combination.  For this, she gave us some pictures of things that used basic vowel-consonant combinations (the ones he knows).  So we have all of this posted on the wall by Justin's seat at the table so we can practice while we're eating.  Justin loves the pictures and he points to them and practices by himself at every meal.  It looks funny, but Justin loves it.  Travis gets involved too.  He asks Justin to say a word and then he repeats it really fast in a twisted effort to encourage Justin to be able to say it better. (Boy logic: faster = better)  Justin's best words are up and out.  When he says "oat" there is a very defined break between the "o" and "t".  And with "arm" he just points to his own arm and babbles.  He somehow has forgotten how to make the "m" sound.  I'm not sure how that happened.  I am trying to remedy the situation and so far I am failing! 

The words are: out, eat, oat, up, arm. (I had to ask what "oat" was!)