Doing well with the therapy intensive.

The pics I've posted are from the therapy intensive we have been taking part in at NAPA Center, which is where we are going for our PT and OT now. It's quite interesting and taxing at the same time. It consists of 4 consecutive hours of therapy, although today I took out one of the hours which I will explain in a minute.

After dropping Lila at her Performing Arts Workshop at 8:30, we begin our first session at 9am with CME. This is the pics of him walking on the little blocks, he steps in and out of boxes, walks on balls, up and down ramps, etc. It's pretty crazy. All this while the therapist holds him below the knees or even just with the styrofoam sticks or rolled up rubber padding around his calves. He's doing amazing with it although I have to play entertainment director throughout the whole thing. In the pics he looks half asleep or has a toy. This is because I'm not entertaining, I'm taking pics ;-) And he's so tired!

After this, we were going into an hour of speech. That's a whole other topic that I will discuss when I don't need to get to bed. We've been waiting for this therapist to start at NAPA but the connection is not there so I told them we will stay with where we have been the last month. So for now, we will either try to add an OT session or just have a bit of time to chill out together. Then it's an hour of suit therapy. That's the funny cowboy looking get-up with all the bungee's on it. Really different. The bungees are supposed to give him reinforcement/more awareness as to where his body is and how his muscles are working.

So far, in CME session, he's taken 1 independent step and he stood on his own for 30 seconds, of course while I was dancing for him and singing him the ABC's with words for every letter. He loves that song, in fact he's obsessed with it and the letters on his mirror and "asks" me to sing it all the time.

My sweet love is communicating as I may have mentioned before. He still does not have words but he gets his point across quite clearly. And I've been copying everything he babbles and it seems to be helping him realize his sounds are important. At least that's what the books say. And he continues with his babbles so I guess they are right.

Now just a matter of finding just the right therapist match to help him hear momentum realized in words. I will be tenacious in my search until the match is found.