Thursday, May 11, 2006

Cognition improving with Cellular Zeolite

Another speech therapy session yesterday. Another improvement! Yea for Demi!
For articulation, the speech therapist will typically go through some picture cards, have Demi identify the picture, and then have her repeat a sentence about the picture. This time, for the first time, the therapist had Demi identify the picture and then make up a sentence about the picture all by herself. She did it! She made up a simple sentence and said it so we could understand it 12 out of 15 times.
Typically, when introduced to a new concept or exercise, Demi would take at least a few times to "get it", sometimes QUITE a few times. I was amazed to hear her coming up with creative sentences on her own.
At home, of course, she makes up sentences to communicate, but that's typically out of necessity or an oft-repeated pretend scenario. At therapy, she was saying things I've never heard her say: "I play with marbles at home." (She was making up a sentence for the word 'marbles'.)
I'm so happy to see her progress accelerating!

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