(In the above picture Jackson is watching Baby Signing Time and signing "Water.")Jackson is beyond obsessed with bubbles. First thing, when Jackson wakes up he says, "daddy, bubbles." When he gets hurt, he runs and asks for bubbles...all day long he asks for bubbles. We cannot bribe him with food but we can sure bribe him with bubbles. It is crazy. The Babynet coordinator gets him to do things by using bubbles. On Wednesday night, he sees Kris at church, asks for bubbles and does not even get upset that we are dropping him off. I have even started calling him "Bubbles" and Charlie has started to call him "Bubba" (I guess that is a cool version of "Bubbles").
Anyway, here is an update on his speech progress:
He is almost as obsessed with bubbles as he is the Baby Signing Time dvd's. I was able to get volumes 1 and 2 on amazon for a good price as well as the original Signing Time dvd, but the last two volumes of Baby Signing Time are so new that I ordered volume three today for $20 on Baby signing time's website: http://www.signingtime.com/. I am going to wait a couple of more weeks to order volume 4.
Regular Signing Time has about 15 volumes along with flash cards. Even if your child has no problems communicating, one mom says that Signing Time dvd's have helped her 17 month old to learn to read. I would highly recommend these dvd's!
Anyway, after watching these dvd's every day for multiple times, Jackson's speech therapist said that he made the most progress in one week just by using the videos of any child she has seen. He can sign and say "cracker, dog, eat, eat food, etc." When he wants food he says and signs "eat, food." He will say "shoes" now, but he will only sign "socks." He even will sign "Pj's." It really is unbelievable.
He went from only doing like 15% of what the speech therapist wanted him to say, to 40% in one week. She knew the video's would help but she did not think just in one week he would have 15 to 20 signs as well as signs with words down. He is really starting to understand the power of communication through signs and words. The dvd even teaches him how to sign and say "hurt," which I cannot wait for him to tell me when his stomach hurts or when he is not feeling well. He loves to dance so and do hand motions with the Wiggles so I think he thinks signing is like dancing. He still has a hard time drinking through a straw so the speech therapist is going to check his mouth for weaknesses there. Yesterday he signed and said "airplane" which is a huge accomplishment for him. Again, I tried and tried to teach him unsuccessfully but these video's taught him. What are you favorite educational DVDs?
At church, he officially hates the bye bye buggy. This is very unfortunate. However, Lynn said that since he loves to clean he stays back now (while the rest take a ride) and helps them sweep crumbs up. He really loves to clean, sweep, vacuum....I now know this is very unusual.
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