Yesterday Kasia FINALLY began another block of speech therapy. The fact that she has had no therapy since June 2008 has me more than a little perturbed. There were the summer holidays, then the letdown of not being accepted into the Senior Path preschool program which started in September, and then..... it seemed we were just forgotten! As it turns out, the delay has been caused by the apparently totally unexpected and unplanned for (insert heavy sarcasm here) maternity leave of one of the speech therapists, which caused complete havoc to break out at the centre and overload the remaining therapists. So we waited. The promise of an October start turned into November, then December, Christmas came and went, and finally after commenting to our occupational therapist about the delay, we got the call that our block would start at the end of January. However, the news was also that Kasia was being transferred to another therapist due to the aforementioned patient overload. Hmph. The therapist that had made such wonderful headway initially would not be continuing with Kasia.
I'm keeping an open mind, though I'm honestly starting to have more and more feelings of bitterness creep into my thoughts. I mean, if a child is diagnosed as having a "severe speech delay" should the therapy not be ongoing and continuous?? Why in the world would therapy stop completely for over 6 months? Kasia has made tremendous progress in these past months, but I have to wonder how much better she could be doing had she been receiving regular therapy.
Her new therapist commented how most children are able to start putting words together once they know approximately 40-50 words. Well, at 150-200 words, Kasia should definitely be putting those words together, but so far it eludes her. I'm really hoping that this current block of therapy will help to unlock that skill for her. The idea of my little bee turning to me and speaking a sentence is thrilling! I know she'll do it one day but like the song says, the waiting is the hardest part.
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Yay- I love blog updates!!
You know you're preaching to the choir here. Kasia should not have had to wait 6 months for speech therapy. I'm just so glad that she's started.
I have no doubt that she'll start stringing words together - as you said, she's just going to do it in Kasia time and maybe when you least expect it. I hear you on the waiting though - it's tough.
I am sorry to hear that you had to deal with such a delay! I agree with Barbara, it will come... I think about the phrase...
God, please give me patience and give it to me now.
Hang in there... before you know it she will be talking your ear off! It will be sweet music to your ears.
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