The Little Stinker

For the first time Jojo has been a little stinker at therapy two days in a row. I thought yesterday was a fluke but then he did the same thing today. I can't believe it is ONLY Tuesday, the past two days have thoroughly exhausted me.........

Today Jojo came into Kendra's room and sat in the chair and when she started to talk to him he put his head down and twisted his body so he wouldn't have to look at her. She was asking him to talk and he refused and was kind of grunting and saying "Maaaamaaaa" He acted like she was a complete stranger who was asking him to do horrible things. We both sat there and shook our heads at him then decided maybe he had to poop. We let him stand up and he was better, he then started doing his "work" (talking) and playing. He never did poop although we thought that was the most logical explanation for how he was acting. He just wasn't all that cooperative today. Hmmm....is he going to start acting like a two year old now?!?! LOL
After that session we went over to MISD for speech with Miss Mary. He gets to play more there and it is a little less structured and he acted like his usual self.
He is making significantly better ooo and eee sounds and is starting to request things with word approximations instead of just pointing or signing. He doesn't have any more words yet just working on the same things as always, animal sounds, up, down, open, more, go, colors, hi, bye, I want, me and things like that. He still needs word for word cues to say most things. For example I will show him a picture of an apple and say "what is it?" He will then usually just look at me until I say "ah" and then he will say "po." Learning how to initiate a word is quite a challenge! He is still really having a tough time getting those vowel + consonant combo's but the consonant + vowels combo's are beginning to get a little easier for him! Yeah! So proud of him, he works so hard.