“What is your child’s current favourite song?”
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“What have you been working on with your child these first two months of 2020?”
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Coraline’s communication is such a joy at the moment.
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Our neighbour Margaret was learning so much we thought we had better keep up! And of course we want to do it for Coraline
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“Early intervention”! I am not sure I knew this term before we had Coraline. It's such a familiar term now.
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To build on copying the sounds Coraline makes, which I wrote about yesterday, I learned at the talk I went to that we can expand a sound she can make.
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I now copy whatever Coraline does in terms of her sounds.
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We would expect that it’s likely Coraline will start to talk from about 24-36 months, whilst for typical babies it’s likely to be from 10-18 months. She will work to develop clear speech.
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The idea is that early intervention now will have a positive effect on later development.
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Coraline’s speech therapist says to mimic the same sounds back to her so she will learn about copying sounds and turn taking
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Until now we have put a hard munchable e.g. a carrot stick or a crisp on the tray but she wouldn’t pick it up herself so we would pass it to her. It’s amazing to think she’s made the connection to picking it up now.
We have been working on Coraline's gross motor skills with her Physiotherapist which underpin her fine motor skills for eating. We appreciate how hard Coraline works when she is eating, due to her lower muscle tone which is a characteristic of Down’s syndrome.
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“You might want to keep one day free where you have no healthcare appointments at all,”said the lady who came over for our initial visit from Portage when Coraline was a few months old.
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"Remember rhythm and music are the foundations to the development of language."
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As weaning is approaching soon, her speech therapist explained to me that chewing muscles are fine motor skills and gross motor skills are the basis for that. Fascinating when you think about it.
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