Cooper Update

I know I haven't given an update on Cooper lately, so hear goes.  Cooper had a hearing test on New Year's Eve and everything came up perfect.  He did have a slower reaction to his low tones, but they figure he was just getting bored with the tests. 

So, we have moved on to working with the Birth to 3 program.  We met with the Program Coordinator last week and immediately signed Cooper up.  She said that they expect an 18 month old to be saying 25 words and a 2 year old to be saying 50 words and be putting atleast 2 words together.  Well, since Cooper is 20 months old and was only sort of saying "momma," we new he was immediately accepted.

The next step is for the speech therapist and the early childhood teacher come out to the house and evaluate him.  One of the requirements of the program is that he be evaluated by 2 different people, using 2 different evaluation scales.  Then, they will put together a report and determine a program for him.  They will also determine how often the speech therapist will come out to work with him.  Most of the time they spend about 1 hour every week or 1 hour every other week.  Mostly, the therapist will just give me different ideas of how to work with Cooper.  The great thing is that everyone will always come right to the house. 

Since the program coordinator was here, we have gotten Cooper to say 4 words.  The words are not the most clear but he is attempting them.  He also will only say these words on command.  The words are: momma, more, milk, and boot.

I'll update after our next meeting.