June 13th Monday, 2011
We loaded up the car and came back home. With upside down smiles we silently drove back home. It was sad to leave her sisters and friends, new and old at camp. We unloaded the car up three flights of stairs and I went to pick up Grace. Jewel cried off and on in the evening. The house was so quiet compared to camp and our hearts ached.
June 14 Tuesday, 2011
Jewel had a great speech session with a new speech pathologist.
She opened a new window for us, she uses Sara Rosenfeld's approach in speech pathology. She uses straws as a main tool. She said the Beckman oral approach was not best for Jewel because of her high tone. Beckman uses a lot of hands on manipulation. First she spent a lot of time just encouraging Jewel to breath and feel the sensation of being relaxed. Then she introduced the straw. Jewel is comfortable and familiar with straws and she caught on fast. Straws are fun and non threatening, we worked on lip-rounding and hope to see improved tongue retraction, speech clarity will be a side effect. I am not familiar with Sara Rosenfeld's approach and I am happy to be learning new information and tools to help Jewel.
www.talktools.com/site/files/.../SRJ_Therapies_Article.pdf
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