Today I arrived during David’s Speech Therapy with Siobhan, a substitute for the holidays, which was great.  His regular ST comes back tomorrow, and David asked if he could have Siobhan replace his current ST, but she said that she couldn’t.  Her boss – David’s current ST – wouldn’t like it.  Later, he had Physical Therapy with Minet, and did some walking without the brace on the parallel bars.

We had a visit during lunch from Julie Halston, who brought some black & white cookies and French macaroons.  Later in the afternoon, Lynda Crawford stopped by and read a scene from the play that she is working on.  I stayed through dinner, but hit the road when I saw that there were some severe thunderstorms coming through NY.

David seems to be speaking more, but during the session with Siobhan, she was working with letters of the alphabet, and said that David and I should do this practice whenever we could, so later in the day we did it twice.  Basically, I show him a letter (consonants only) and he is supposed to say what the letter is, and then produce the sound.  She said that this would help with his beginning to initiate sounds and words.  Unfortunately, he didn’t get many of the letters, and most of the sounds were also slow to come and often difficult.  He also would forget the letters and sounds immediately after he had gotten them.  I guess that is why it is important to practice this, and we will continue.