Our Progress thus far

We should be having some meetings to see where Jamil is according to the professionals. I believe the first one is in the beginning of August, which will be 6 months since we started speech. So I will give a more detailed post at that time.

We started Speech and Music at 17 months exactly. At that time Jamil could babble Dada and Nana, and would babble a bit in between, but had no meaningful words. He had roughly 60 signs, and could repeat them back to me, or if given a choice he could sign back, but would ONLY initiate a request for Milk or Water via sign. He never told us he was hungry, tired or cold, he also had not learned to point at all, despite the fact that we had been working on these goals at home for months. His receptive knowledge was testing strongest at 21-28 months. He knew the hand gestures to at least 10 songs, and could label pictures (via sign) In a book, or point to at least 50 pictures in a book (only if he could touch them)

The first milestone was reached at Music, he learned to blow in a whistle. After only one week of speech he said Up at home, and this was his first word at 17 months old. He then started requesting for Dada and meaning it. (pairing the word with the sign)

Now at 21 months (So only 4 months later) He can say MANY words and just this week has been able to repeat 2 words together. He learned to point to things when requested at 19 months, and started spontaneously pointing to things to label at 20 months! Now he is pointing to request for things pared with his version of That/That (Dee) He is also spontaneously requesting for food and toy items that are out of sight. (this is a HUGE accomplishment) He is very persistent and specific of what he wants too!

His word bank consists of
Some of these he only consistantly repeats, or will lable if asked and other's he uses spontaniously, I have 68 listed, and I did not count letters or animal sounds. (He knows all 26 letters expressivly and uses them spontaniously) I put the ones he uses spontaniously in bold.
(not all words are clear, but a consistant approximation) According to Google, at 2 a child should have rougly 50 words they use spontaniously, and should be pairing short 2 words sentences. (ex Me down, Me up, More please) He is at 40 spontanious words!
Mama (WOO HOO)
Milk
Daddy
Nana
Papa
Auntie
Amo Ali
Arya
Momo
Sugar
Laura
Linda
Ot
Talk
Swing
Up
Down
Open
All done
More
again
water
Cracker
cookie
Elmo
Ernie
Mickey
Donald
Goofy
Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Purple
Pink (just the K sound)
White (just the t sound)
Brown
Black (also just the k sound)
one
two
Three
Four
Five
eight
nine
ten
(tries to say 6/7 but not close at all just an uh sound)
Color
juice
Yogurt
Please
cheese
Ball
Hi
Bye
Good
Morning
water
Car
Apple
tree
Dog
Cow
Go
me
Rainbow
Key
Ice
This/That (can't tell which is is going for)

He knows the sounds for
Cow
Dog
Cat
Horse
Goat
Sheep
Tiger
Lion
Train
He will also make up any if he does not know them.


His social deficets are the biggest. He is very akward when approached, and has a hard time with greetings, His reaction was very extreme (he would scream, and pull away when someone (even family) would say hi or approach him. He is getting much better with this, and will say Hi and Bye most times, but is still akward when someone gets to close to him. I belive this is a sensory issue and not knowing how someone will sound or how it will feel when he is touched. This is an area we will continue to work on.