Although I have read to my now 10 year old daughter since she was a wee babe, this summer we have finally moved into her listening to (and enjoying) longer chapter type books. With my daughter’s severe expressive/receptive language disorder, reading long blocks of text to her and keeping her engaged in the story has been a challenge. With some further growth in her language abilities, I was hopeful that we could progress into more complexread more…
For many years now, my daughter Hannah and I have had a favorite saying: I say “You’re my girl”, and she says “all day”. There was no change in that until a few days ago when she said afterwards “Mom, what about tomorrow when you’re at work … am I still your girl?” So, I explained to her that she’s my girl all day, everyday, always. So our saying has changed a little bit – nowread more…
Yesterday, Hannah (turned 9 in December) typed a letter for me on the computer. I thought I would share it with you. You’ll notice that she is very interested in Valentine’s Day this year … you’ll also notice that she really likes a certain punctuation mark. Dear Mommie, I love your little, tiny, little garden full of hearts of love and I also love your sunflower garden of love too! Thank you for the pretty flowers!read more…
I have not written much about language disorders in the last year, and I realize that is because it is not as big of an issue for my daughter as it has been. For those new to my blog, my daughter has a severe mixed expressive/receptive language disorder and phonological disorder. She was diagnosed at the age of 32 months by Dr. Stephen Camarata, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. In layman’s terms, Hannah has hadread more…
Earlier this week I was walking with my daughter Hannah, and she was talking on about various things, when suddenly – and with great excitement – said, “SQUIRREL!” Having recently commented about how few squirrels we have seen here, I followed her excitement and started looking around, but I saw no squirrel. Hannah was laughing quite merrily by this point when she informed me “It’s a joke Mommie!”. If you have seen the movie “UP”, thenread more…
