The New Speech Therapist - Alex

We met Alex, the new speech therapist yesterday. Jan, our other speech therapist decided to retire.

Jacob was a little shy for Alex, at first. He wouldn't look at him, talk to him, or play with him,until Jacob brought out the trucks. Then, it was smooth like mayonnaise.

I liked Jan but, I really like Alex. I like how he told us things, "I like how JJ repeats.", "That's what we want him to do.", etc. It was comforting to know what he was seeing Jacob do, what things he was looking for. Alex also asked us a lot more questions and gave us more suggestions - like if Jacob mispronounces to repeat and say the word correctly. To have JJ point things out in books and repeat them.

He also explained some of the actions Jacob was doing with Miss Carrie (the OT) and why those things were good for Jacob including what he saw that he liked. Alex took lots of notes - I liked that too!

Alex seemed comfortable with us and with Jacob. He sat on the floor, at one point he was even lying on the floor with JJ reading a book.

Alex will visit us once a week starting next Wednesday. Miss Carrie will continue her weekly visits as well. He's also going to prepare the language testing to see where we go next. 3 is coming too fast - less than 3 months (WOW!). Thankfully, that still gives us about 10 more visits