Emma's Eval

Emma's eval went great yesterday!! I absolutely love who her OT/PT will be. They were fantastic. With all the changes in our household the last 6 weeks Emma has been acting shy around strangers, but she walked into the room signing "play" and boy did she! They didn't push her and they gave her more than one chance to do a skill. I was very impressed. 45 minutes later we went to the room that will be her classroom for the cognitive and speech eval. Emma roamed the room and the teachers/psychometrist/speech path just watched her. Then the speech path was talking with her. At one point she even stopped and asked me how we have Emma show us things. We use "Where is the ...." and she was saying "Show Me.." When she would say that Emma would sign. They felt Emma did well. She even showed her "two year old" tantrums that she has mastered soooooo well!!!

Her celiac screening came back negative. I am glad we had the test, but I am relieved that all is well considering her favorite food is triscuits and cheese.

I had to list all the words that Emma could say and sign they total 56! That has tripled since January. I am so proud of my little girl. Take a look at the list!!

I LOVE TO SIGN!!

I can sign
Eat
More
Please
Cat
Music (Looks like a conductor)
Brush teeth
Sleep
Bed
Blows kisses
Drink (Palm to mouth)
Color (hand in the air pretends to write)
Circle
Book
Draw (pretends to write in her palm
Waves hi
Waves good bye
Baby
Cookie
Straw (pointer finger to opposite palm)
Dog
Bird

Turn the page (holds palm to mouth and licks palm; like an adult would lick finger to turn a page in a book)
I can put 2-3 signs together with some words. Ex: “eat,” “more,” “please”
I will point to the items I want too!

THE WORDS I CAN SAY

Mommy
Daddy
Nana
Kitty
Hayden
Baby
Please (sounds like peas)
CD
Fish
No
Libby (dibby)
Hot
Stop
Don’t
Sesame Street (sese s)
Elmo (pelmo)
My Baby
Mine
Sweet
Pretty
Cookie (tootee)
Look (ook)
Let’s see
What’s this?
Papa
Doodle Bops (ba-ba-ba bops)
Outside
Duck
Sing
Peepee
Poopoo
Thank you (tank too)
Apple
Bubbles
Purple