Aaron update

It's been a couple of months sense Aaron was diagnosed with apraxia of speech. The progress has been amazing. One day it seemed like he woke up and something clicked and it hasn't stopped. I've stopped expecting it to shut off and crazily can barely remember the days of him being silent.

There was once a time where the therapists forms would read something like "Aaron was quiet today. Wouldn't imitate words or sounds" and it meant just what it said--Aaron was quiet. It would have been a half hour or hour of the therapist pushing him to repeat something and Aaron not talking at all.

Now when the forms read "Aaron was quiet today" it means that he wasn't necessarily repeating everything he asked, but he was far from quiet. Yesterday's sheet read something like "When the therapist asked another child how old he was, Aaron turned and said 'I two'. When we went on a walk, he pointed out and verbalized tree, swing, car, walk."

It's so amazing to see his progress. I can understand about 80% of what he says, Jon can probably understand about 70% and good friends can probably understand 60%..and the percentage is even higher if we are paying attention to the context of what he's saying--which would be easy, but now he's also started talking about things that happened hours or days in the past--so we are racking our brains trying to figure out what he's telling us or something going on will remind him of something else.

He still has a long way to go...but it makes me happy knowing that he's made enough process that the words "Aaron was quiet today" means something so much different than it did 2 months ago.