A Kasia Update

Summer flew by at lightening speed. It seems like only a few days ago that Kasia was graduating from her nursery school program. Wow...that was in June! That also brings to mind one of her last days of nursery school and a conversation I had with her speech therapist. The gist of the conversation was the suggestion that Kasia be referred to the assistive communication program. This is the program where children are provided with communication books that contain pictures and/or symbols that they can point to in order to communicate. Sometimes, they even receive talking books - where they press on pictures or words and the book speaks for them.





Last year I would've gone to a dark place at the mere thought of Kasia being referred to assistive communication, but apparently I've grown! I'm trying to see these additional therapies as simply that..... additional therapies that can only help Kasia. It doesn't mean I've given up on her talking - in fact, it's exactly the opposite!



Back to the converstion with her speech therapist in June.....

One of the things she asked of me was to make a list of all the words Kasia could say. I struggled to come up 10. And truthfully, most of the words on the list were cheaters like:

ha (hat)
pa (pants)
ba (mom)
tow(towel)
shur (shirt)

You get the point.

Well, in less than 3 months time, how things have changed! Now we hear hat, pants, shirt, coat, car, cat, hi, bye, dad, bird, bed, towel, plate, pen, paper, open, up, good, bad, hot, cold and I can't even believe it, but words like counter, happy, awesome and water! I'm still "Ba" right now, but that's okay!


So to all those who speculated, and inferred and suggested that she would never talk, well I guess that they can now just go and

eat their own words!