OK I am eating my hat.

[jimjamshaslefttheyurt]

DS1 is saying Mummy properly and with meaning. He must have ready my thread last week, because he definitely wasn't. It changed over the weekend (must have been the surfing ). Apparently he sits in school saying 'mummy' and signing home.

[ouryve]

Eeeeee!!!!!!!!

[TotalChaos]

out of interest, how exactly does it work on receptive language?

[jimjamshaslefttheyurt]

DS1 did growing minds. It taught him to imitate. Which has made a massive difference. Now we're doing Light on Literacy. We're not at the reading activities yet, but we have been working on receptive language (although I have to say it is the bit of the programme ds1 really, really struggles with).

[Arabica]

Well done!

[mm22bys]

That is so fantastic!

[Shells]

Fabulous. x

[ScummyMummy]

Awww! How sweet and amazing, He is so clever and gorgeous and fab.

[jimjamshaslefttheyurt]

He goes to shiatsu. It's an hour and half's drive away (and back again). But shiatsu guy is very experienced with LD's. It wouldn't be possible for ds1 to get it without that expeirnce (especially after last week when he left the poor guy covered in bruises . I'm hoping it will help the the stupid levels of sensory seeking......

BUt he has a toilet just off the room, which ds1 likes. Hence the sign....

[Twiglett]

oh wow

how amazing

I'm filling up here

and he needs a sign for shiatsu because...

[Blu]

oh, the little sweetheart.

I can imagine him sitting signing 'home' and saying 'Mummy'. Gorgeous boy.

[daisy5678]

you must feel amazing!

[wannaBe]

that is fantastic!

[TotalChaos]

well done DS1.

[jimjamshaslefttheyurt]

ds1 has always been very good with photos and people's name sphil (over active associative memory). Did you see the thread on here last week about face blindness and autism?

[Thomcat]

That is so utterly wonderful that it's very bloody hard to put it into words. I'm trying very hard not to get overly emotional but if you could see me now you'd see I'm not doing a very good job and clip me round the ear for being a soft get!

[sphil]

DS2 only says it in answer to the question 'What's my name?' (and even then he says his own name half the time) which makes me suspect it's rote learnt rather than functional. He does say Grandpa though .

Slightly off the point JJ - can DS1 recognise people in photos? And if so, has he always been able to? I'm pretty sure DS2 has a kind of 'face blindness' - finds it very difficult to recognise people, including himself. So names are bound to be tricky as a result I guess.

[Seuss]

yay!

[drowninginlaundry]

oh wow, and you thought he'd never speak!

DS1's speech has also come on loads in the past two weeks. Loads. No new words as such but it's like he's trying, really trying. A combination of leaving London and Light on Literacy maybe?

[theheadgirl]

What a star - this is my favourite sort of thread Well done to your boy

[jimjamshaslefttheyurt]

Lots of Mummy's again tonight, but Daddy came out as 'Mummy" so we may need to work on that. He knew he'd said it wrong though, which is also new......

[MommyUpNorth]

Brilliant!

[Troutpout]

fantastic