Cohen's therapy started!!! I have kept saying how frustrated we have been with the First STeps process, but after 4 months and LOTS of phone calls, Cohen started 1 hour a week Special Instruction, which is kind of a "play skills" therapy and they reinforce her socialization skills, and 1 hour a week Speech Therapy. Over the Christmas vacation, Cohen exploded with sounds. She is still just making vowel sounds but they are definitely more frequent and louder. Although we would like her to get to a more age appropriate verbal skill level, one of the main focuses of ST will be to strengthen her oral motor skills and tongue control. We have been diligently working on our "homework" of beeping/locating her nose and clapping our hands. We are getting closer everyday to reaching our goals!!So what else is Miss Coco doing? She is now 14 months old and LOVES to get into everything!
- she is finally fitting into 9 month clothes pretty well, except for dresses she is still in 3-6 month
- she LOVES her sleep, she sleeps 7-7 and takes a great nap, sometimes 2!
- she stated walking right after Thanksgiving, still a little wobbly but manages to go everywhere
- she loves to eat and eats anything
- her favorite activity is pulling things out and putting things back
- she is starting to stand her ground against Kinson and the kids in her class-- she likes to push them down
- we have 100 single mismatched socks because Cohen takes her socks off and hides them everywhere-- she took a pair off in my office and we still have yet to find them
- she HATES socks or footed PJ's-- she acts paralyzed!
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