Andy has had to miss the last few speech therapy appointments due to being sick, or having terrible temper tantrums, to where I don't see the point in driving him 30 minutes to speech therapy. He's been in speech therapy for 3 or 4 months now, and is really going NOWHERE. Sadly. I was so excited that it would help him, and it just isn't. He will say "mmm" to the therapist to continue play, and that is IT. It's just so maddening, I don't even want to do it anymore. I just want to take a break from it, and maybe return in the summer. It feels like such a waste of our time. A 20 year experienced speech therapist once told me that she wouldn't even bother doing any speech therapy until Andy was three, and his language base was bigger.
He currently says, mama, dada, and up. He will use the sign "eat" and claps for more. He will also say "mmm", if you ask him to say that to get more food, or a toy. That's about it.
I just became a registered nurse, and my ten-year-old son is infant-like, has frequent meltdowns, and cannot stand without support. He is missing a piece of DNA (chromosome 9q22.2) but we are unsure if it made him disabled. He has a diagnosis of severely multiply impaired, paucity of white brain matter, partial agenesis of the corpus callosum, microcephaly, deformities of the ankle and foot, and Autism.
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