Infant Develpment Worker

  So well we are waiting for our assessment of Billy to see why it is that he is not talking yet at almost three years old. We have what they call an infant development worker come into our home every two weeks, and work with us one on one. They give ideas to work on with Billy to teach him and will eventually help him to speak. We had three things that we need to work on in the last three weeks (as our worker went on holidays for two weeks,.)

1) teach Billy how to jump. ( he would just do the motion but not do the actual jumping part of letting his feet come off of the floor)

2) Getting Billy to go to sleep in his own bed on his own at night when it's bed time ( we co slept since he was a new born)

3) Teach him how to play with play do and roll lines and such ( this we have yet to do but will be starting this week.

So our first home work assignment was to teach Billy how to jump. as mention up above he would crouch down and then stand up like he was going to jump but wouldn't leave the ground for the longest time. So what I did was I showed him how to do it, like I taught him how to drink from his bottle and then a sippy cup extra. I would say OK Billy watch mommy. and then I would jump and then he would try it took him a couple of days but he did it. And boy was he so proud of him self. The video above you will see me teaching Billy how to jump. When I can I will record or take pictures of the new things he learns.

Our second thing was to get Billy to go to sleep in his own bed. Which we have been working on. We started off with mommy sitting in the chair beside his bed  and holding his hand. some nights it would take for ever for Billy to fall asleep. I could be in his room for any where up to an hour I saw my self in there some nights for an hour and a half. So this week. We started Billy ling down to sleep without mommy in the room. The first night he screamed and cried for half an hour I did not go into the room until after he had gone to sleep. I made sure he had is stuffed dog he sleeps with and and then back out I go. each night it has been about a half hour last night though because we had a long day out in the fresh air with his appointment that he was out in 15 minutes maybe 20 put his own blanket on and every thing. So we will continue this and hope that he goes down without any crying at all.
    He still isn't sleeping threw the night but that will come in time I hope. I think this week we will start working with the play do. Alright that's it for this post I will be back with more soon.

About this Blog

Hi there this blog will be something a little different from  your weight loss blogs that you see. Or what ever else people blog about. This blog will be about our 2.5 year old little boy who is having a hard time talking. We have been going back and forth with with O.C.T.C ( Ontario Children's Treatment Center) To help us to see what is going on and whether it may be Autism or not or just a speech delay. What I am going to do here is talk about what we are doing to teach Billy how to talk. And what we as parents are learning is going on with him inside and why he has yet to really talk.
   So join us on this journey of learning and helping our son to speak and here his voice for the first time.
This is going to be a long road ahead but hope fully will have a great ending to the story.