A return phone call
Today was another typical day of late for Liam with his anxiety. He did have his swimming today (Thursday) and he had another good session. Liam continues to do very well in his swimming. Each week he looks forward to going and he continues to excel. It is great to see Liam excelling at something. I know it sounds a bit negative, but I mean it in a positive way.
Jill got a call back today from Liam’s speech therapist. She and Jill had a nice talk. His therapist said she has not seen his stammering very much one on one, but she has heard it on occasion in class with other students. This we find a bit hard to believe. Liam stammers more than he talks clearly lately. He at times does talk clearly, but lately it has been a lot of stammering. Another thing that they noted was when Liam talks, his words all seem to run together. There is no rhythm in his speech. Hereisanexampleofwhatwemeanwhenallhissentencesruntogetherwhenhetalks. This got Jill thinking and she brought up that Liam does not sing. He only says little snippets of songs he knows. This has us thinking that maybe music therapy will do him some good. It also has us thinking that with Autism being a sensory issue, which he doesn’t know how to sing. It is like we have to teach him. Another thing that came up was that the speech therapist has a graduate student that has been working with Liam lately. Now the irritating thing here is, why we weren’t notified a grad student would be working be working Liam. What if we didn’t want a grad student to work with him? A surprise like that is just bothersome. Now Jill’s conversation with the therapist went fairly well. They talked about what else they were doing at school and what her plans are. I think we will make regular phone calls his therapist. The information Jill got today was informative and a big help. We should have this more often from the school, but we can’t leave it up to them.
Liam was thoroughly exhausted after his day of swimming. After his bath he just wanted to go to bed, at 6:30. I did my best to keep him up. As I was cleaning up downstairs it was quiet upstairs. I went back up around 7:15 and found Liam, Aidan, and Brendan, asleep. Hopefully they won’t be up at the crack of dawn tomorrow!
Jill got a call back today from Liam’s speech therapist. She and Jill had a nice talk. His therapist said she has not seen his stammering very much one on one, but she has heard it on occasion in class with other students. This we find a bit hard to believe. Liam stammers more than he talks clearly lately. He at times does talk clearly, but lately it has been a lot of stammering. Another thing that they noted was when Liam talks, his words all seem to run together. There is no rhythm in his speech. Hereisanexampleofwhatwemeanwhenallhissentencesruntogetherwhenhetalks. This got Jill thinking and she brought up that Liam does not sing. He only says little snippets of songs he knows. This has us thinking that maybe music therapy will do him some good. It also has us thinking that with Autism being a sensory issue, which he doesn’t know how to sing. It is like we have to teach him. Another thing that came up was that the speech therapist has a graduate student that has been working with Liam lately. Now the irritating thing here is, why we weren’t notified a grad student would be working be working Liam. What if we didn’t want a grad student to work with him? A surprise like that is just bothersome. Now Jill’s conversation with the therapist went fairly well. They talked about what else they were doing at school and what her plans are. I think we will make regular phone calls his therapist. The information Jill got today was informative and a big help. We should have this more often from the school, but we can’t leave it up to them.
Liam was thoroughly exhausted after his day of swimming. After his bath he just wanted to go to bed, at 6:30. I did my best to keep him up. As I was cleaning up downstairs it was quiet upstairs. I went back up around 7:15 and found Liam, Aidan, and Brendan, asleep. Hopefully they won’t be up at the crack of dawn tomorrow!
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