update

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Grace has been having a vocabulary explosion over the past 2 weeks

that has left everyone completely stunned. She is using 5, 6 and 7

word sentences. She's gained all sorts of new words. Her

intelligibility (SP?) has greatly increased and you can see the wheels

turning.... she is starting to realize what she needs to do to help her

pronounce things more clearly. In other words, I don't have to cue her

as much and give as many reminders.

Grace turned 31 months yesterday. She is becoming a little

chatter box. Here's what we're doing and what services she's

receiving....

Speech 2x per week (speech was on hold when the surge started)

OT for 60 min once a week

I use the level 1 of the Kaufman kit at home with her. We do 1 to 2

drill sessions each day.

Nordic Naturals Pro EFA (2 caps) and Pro EPA (1 cap) three times a day

Vitamin E 400 i.u. twice a day

VItamin E High Gamma (300 mg) once a day

GFCF diet

Even though she has been progressing more and more the slp just gave me

another one of her gloomy outlook scenarios stating that Grace

may still be PDD, she will likely be handicapped all her life, she may

never speak normally, blah blah blah. Fast forward to this past

Wednesday when this same slp was stunned at the things my daughter was

saying and said " see mom, I told you if you'd just be patient she'd be

fine " . Yes... my slp can be a bit of a bone head at times. Now I just

laugh it off.

Recent sentences (that were totally clear) have been.....

Take diaper off now please

This is all gone

I think I wet

This is brown that is red

I want paint please

The Omegas brought about a big change in Grace and helped with

steady progress. I truly believe we are where we are today, however,

due to vitamin E and making a daily commitment to doing the drills. We

use the Kaufman cards but we also do little drills in the car, while

we're hiking, playing, etc that I just make up as I go. I use the

alphabet as a guide and then pick a syllable. For example if I pick

the vowel sound oo then I go through the alphabet as much as possible

with her repeating me.... boo, coo, doo, foo, goo, etc.

We've had behavior issues on and off with the vitamin E. They usually

resolved within three days or so. Once they didn't and I had to do

some detective work. Other than that we've had no problems with the

vitamin e.

So, keep at it. The do turn the corner. I'm shocked at what I'm

seeing. Shocked but thankful.

Kris