Katie's Speech Therapy

Ok, before it is two months and no update, I had better squeeze one in! (I can't believe I last posted on December 15th! That's terrible!)

Katie is now in speech therapy...or we are in speech therapy! Henry & I are taking classes to learn how to help teach Katie to talk! There are 4 classes that Henry & I take and 2 meetings with Katie and us with the speech therapist. Katie is officially a "late talker" which basically means her receptive language is quite high while her expressive language is quite low for her age. She understands everything - in fact she basically potty trained herself in 3 days!
So at home we are working with Katie throughout the day simplifying our language, giving her key words, even using sign language to help. During the next 4-6 weeks we should see quite a lot of progress. If we do not, then this would indicate something else is going on. It is possible there is also a oral something component...you would think I would remember what the "something" should be! Basically it would be that her mouth muscles are developed fine, but there's some connection between her brain and her mouth that needs "therapy". It would mean that over the next 2-3 years Katie would need quite extensive speech therapy. Pray that we would start to see some progress! Right now, 2 weeks into it, Katie has maybe one more word - which would bring her grand total of words up to 2!