Jojo has started a new set of cards (words to work on) at the Kaufman Center. We are now trying words such as penny, dirty, muddy, happy and bunny. We have a list of about 30 words to work on this week. He recently started to call his brother Dom-eee. We all use that as a nickname for Dominic. He went from calling him Da to Dom-eee. It's very cute. The two things that we were working on the most at therapy so far this week are; again the second consonants in daddy, mommy, puppy, bunny and working on the "n" sound in the middle and end of words. He can say it most of the time on the beginning of words such as "no." When it is elsewhere in the word he turns it into a "t" sound. "On" becomes "ot" and "down" becomes "dot." He said a two word phrase spontaneously twice today during therapy. "More ball" and "put on." His accuracy on spontaneously naming objects with single word approximations was near 80% for the past two weeks Kendra told us. That means when shown an object, 80% of the time he tries to say what it is. (even if it is only a good attempt!) That means we have made great progress and will try even harder things next week. Well three sessions down, one to go this week! Next week he has an appointment for another PT evaluation. He is going to start going once a week to PT again. Still waiting to be reimbursed by our insurance company for his bills at Beaumont. Apparently Beaumont billed for the wrong therapy, billed speech when it should have been for PT, so insurance won't pay until that is fixed. His 60 consecutive days are up for insurance coverage for speech so now we have to start paying 20% of each visit to Beaumont and insurance doesn't cover treatment at the Kaufman Center at all. I am just so thankful that he is making progress, it is all worth it!!!