New words

Callum's word list now includes - bed, girl & cow. We've figured out that "De" (see Elbow post below) means CD! he's also saying something that sounds like thank you - we just need to hear it a few more times to make sure.

Kieran now says - Hi, ball & dad. He's got quite a husky voice, his teachers at day care say it's his flirting with the ladies voice.

Alan (the speech therapist) is very impressed with Callum starting to make "g", "k" and "c" sounds at the begining of words. We're trying to expand Callum's current single word vocabulary to include more 2 word phrases. I read something recently (Thanks Nicola) about someone using reading to help stimulate speaking. We've just ordered the "Teaching Reading to Children with Down syndrome" book and some picture matching cards as I've heard that the first step is to do picture matching.

Take a look at these two articles Reading before Talking: Learning about Mental Abilities from Children with Down's Syndrome and Teaching children with Down syndrome to read