lang help please we tried every thing here .

[sabrina dreams]

hi my daughter has pddnos and is 4 we tried speech and still doing it but a big wall we have hit. she on a 2 year level but barely. we tried aba shut down . but music and sing is her new thing . she startied singing all the songs in school this week . weather song ,wheels on the bus , crooss cross for greeting others every day. i now going to start dance class with lang with it. to help her . but i need help for her schhol is very worried about it and seem to get thinks going . please help me. speech is in and outisde of school 3 in school and 2 days outside of school. and in a lang class too. nicole

[Lisa S]

Nicole,
Maybe you could try some kid's musical videos to help Sabrina. What does she like? Barney has lots of songs. When Catherine was younger, she adored Teletubbies and then she started liking Barney and then Sesame Street. I ate my earlier words that she would NEVER watch children's videos and bought whatever kind she liked at the time. I loved hearing her try to sing the songs and try to repeat what she heard, sometimes much later. Does your library have children's videos so you can see if she likes them?

I'm trying to think what else we did. Catherine had apraxia, which I think means her muscles for speaking were not cooperating with her when she tried to speak. We had homework from her speech therapist like holding her tongue up behind her teeth to hold a Smartee candy or putting on lip gloss and rubbing our lips together in front of a mirror or blowing bubbles or a blowing toy. It depended on which muscles we were supposed to be "waking up", but we made the homework fun anyway.
Lisa