Speech

In October 2011, Kayleigh began speech therapy for delays she was showing.  She was in a program with the state called Early Intervention (an amazing program) and she qualified there for one year.  This program is available to infants through age 3.  Since her one year evaluation fell within her 6 months of her third birthday, she no longer qualified for their program. For kids 3 and older, the state has a program that is called Central Intermediate Unit.  The week prior to her 3rd birthday she had her evaluation to see if she still qualified for speech assistance.  Thankfully she did qualify and began speech today for the first time with her new speech pathologist.  She misses her old speech teacher "Ms. Alison" but seemed to really like her new one, "Ms. Lynn."  The CIU uses more educational based tools to help with speech and Kayleigh got homework from speech today which made her really excited!  Darling gets homework everyday and Kayleigh felt like a big girl doing her homework too!

I am so grateful for both these programs that have helped our little girl talk (sometimes too much!) and communicate!  When she started with the EI program, she said "Mom" and "Da" and that was it.  She now has an immense vocabulary and we are now working on the annunciation part of her speech!

Can't wait to see what is next for our Flash and how she progresses from here!!