Category: Parent Talk
Hi all. Solomon is 17 months and a few days old now. We're still working with sitting up and walking and words are coming very slowly. He's got mama dada and nana and lots of inflection and cute noises. It's like he thinks he's talking in sentences just in his language. Have any of you needed to get your kids evaluated and if so how did it go? We're not scared or pannicking just aware. Zak and Ariana both had language disorders. With Solomon being born a month early plus being deaf for six months and his genes it's good that he's doing as well as he is. We're looking in to some dvds made by speech and occupational therapists to help him and make the ocp and slp's jobs easier. We're going in one more time for a hearing test just to be sure. Anything else that you guys can think of please post. Thanks. Tiffany
I took my daughter at 18 months for orthopaedic evaluation as she wasn't walking unassisted, but the eval was strictly hip xrays and she was running after that. I think each child learns at a different pace, and walking w assistance at 17 months is pretty good. Speech came for her around 2, but she wasn't really talking for at least a year. I think a few words is good at 1 1/2, especially if your son has a hearing loss. Are you guys planning to teach him to read lips? I had a classmate whose mom did this as Jan was born deaf due to rubella, and unless someone said something you wouldn't even know she was deaf. Good luck with tests and evaluations!
Good luck! I didn't realize you guys had so many kids! WOW!
I hope the evaluation goes well...keep us posted
Thanks guys, actually we've looked in to something called cued speech thats hand positions around the mouth to give visual cues for different parts of speech. Deaf children learn to speak and even a basic note scale via this method and you can't tell they're deaf. Here's the odd part when we had his hearing tested a second time at 6 months it was normal. We want to rule out all possibilities. We're willing to get him ear tubes if there is an issue as that usually prevents further hearing loss and maximizes hearing aids if we even need to go that far. He's improving everyday with sitting and walking. He'll be up and running in no time. We've got this push car thing that he can use for balance now that he can sit by himself he should be able to get more from the toy. Plus if he has the same language disorder as Zak and Ariana movement is part of the therapy. Oh yeah, there's a deaf rapper and a partially deaf saxiphone player. According to the deaf rapper deaf people like m&m befause of the inflection and with the right speakers you can literally feel what he's saying. I don't care if he's signing reading lips using an alphabet board that spells and speaks words or just decides to talk one day. A way will be found. He loves it when you count with him and sing the abc song, for a deaf kid that's not bad. Tiffany Oh yeah, the sax player takes his hearing aids out for practice and performance,he says it affects the way he interprets the music.
There is a program you can get on dvd. Parts of it are sold in walmart if you want to get it. It's called your baby can read. It helps with speech and all of that. Chloe loves it and has learned some from it. You can also buy it online. Hope this helps.