Speech Therapy Day 1

What a Monday; we made it through three therapy sessions. Yesterday Juleyana had her first speech therapy session with the SLP. They worked through play. This therapy session was more getting to know Jules (16 months old) and getting her comfortable with her new therapist.  At this point Jules is making sounds such as "mmmm" "bahbah" and "dah." She is not yet labeling such as mama or dada. We have been working at home with labeling and pretend play, all of which are suggested for speech development. Speech development usually develops at about the time a child begins to walk. Since Jules has been crawling we have seen a big increase in her babbling. We also will begin working on signing words such as "more" "milk" "eat" and "all done." This is just the beginning and we can't wait to see how she progresses in the next 6 months.