Here We Go Again

Jensyn finally had her speech evaluation. She has hypotonia with high sensitivity in her cheeks.

Whatever could they mean?

Don't these jowls cheeks just scream of toned muscles?
And she just loves to have you dig around in her mouth!Carly also had low tone (with low sensitivity.). Apparently my babies need some major cheek workouts.

She was seen by Denise Hamilton, CCC/SLP who also saw Carly when she was 3 or 4 years old. She was amazed at Carly's progress and didn't even recognize her. After working with Jensyn for about 45 minutes, Denise also said this, 'I think we are dealing with a little perfectionist here.' Umm-What?

***Brag Alert***

Denise went on to explain that Jensyn is incredibly bright and understands that what she is saying is not what we are saying. So, Jensyn is not going to say it until she can say it right. Hence, the perfect Mama, Dada, Uh-oh, Yeow, but NO OTHER WORDS. There is no Ca-for Carly, La-for Leighton even though she can make the L sound. This will be a little harder to treat, but we believe in Denise. Jensyn's expressive (what she says) language is around a eight to twelve month old, but her receptive (what she understands) language is near a three year olds.

Jensyn will have therapy once a week, and we have a call into the Early Intervention Team to try to get her set up in that system. Carly used it and it was wonderful. In my opinion, a great use of our tax dollars. We might even get our old case worker, Karen Troutner-Watkins.

So, now it is back to picture signs on everything, nuk brushes in every drawer and not missing any opportunity to work on speech.

Oh Leighton, you were soooo easy.

But, I am paying for it now and I think it is only going to get worse.