Tonight in the car Aaron pointed at my eye and said, "Ah!" then pointed at my ear and said, "Eh!" These seem like meaningful approximations to me. Rich and I have both noticed more deliberate uses of "Mama" and "Dada." Last week with Austin he waved goodbye for the first time, and he's doing that regularly with prompting, and tonight when I took his pacifier out of his mouth he bunched up his fingers and tapped his lips. I'm counting that as an invented sign for binkie.
As of today, his signs are: bye bye, binkie, more, eat, drink, please, up, throw, all done, book/read (with help) and help (with help)
His words are: Mama, Dada, Uh-oh, eye (maybe), ear (maybe), whee (maybe)
In his speech service plan our goal is 50 words/signs by December. I think we're doing better at prompting and rewarding Aaron for making sounds and Austin is definitely helping, I think primarily by modelling ways to interact that are most likely to elicit speech. We're supposed to be doing Beckman exercises to stimulate the muscles in and around his mouth, but Aaron has been resistant then I forgot to do them today. We're also giving him a vibrating teether to chew on and press on his lips, which is also stimulating the muscles in his mouth. Fortunately he likes the teether!
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