Brandon Graduated!!!

Brandon officially graduated from Speech Therapy on Friday. He did extremely well on his assessment, so Mary Frances, his therapist, and I decided we should terminate his sessions. Without getting into too much technical information, here's what his test scores showed.

Auditory Comprehension - 3 years 3 months age range
Expressive Communication - 2 years 11 months
TOTAL LANGUAGE SCORE - 2 years 11 months

Stregnths - Understands use of objects, understands part/whole relationships, follows 2 step related commands without cues. uses plurals, answers simple "what" and "where" questions, uses "ing" verbage

Needs - understanding negatives in sentences and uses of variety of nouns, verb modifiers, and pronouns.

These are also classified as "needs", but only because he was assessing at almost a 5 year old level on a few things, so these were in the 3 year old to 3 years 11 months old level. Thus, making them look like a "need." Making inferences, identifies categories of objects in pictures, uses possessives, and completes analogies.

He averaged out at a 2 year 6 month old level on his receptive and expressive vocabulary skills.

Finally, here is what Mary Frances said about him, " Brandon is a very friendly and active boy who continues to make increasing gains with his speech and language skills. Brandon's scores place him within the average to above average for his age and gender. Based on Brandon's scores, he no longer qualifies for speech-language services. However, due to his medical history the option to terminate services should be left up to the parents. Brandon would continue to benefit from language stimulation and interaction with peers."

All in all, I'm very happy with the results of this assessment. When he was assessed the first time, he was below average in every category. We have the option to go back until he's 3 if we feel he is struggling. I don't see that happening considering he told me this the other day..."Mommy, no eat poop." I said, "That's right Brandon, we don't eat poop!"

Here's a cute video of him being his silly self! We had stir fry the other night, and Brandon proceeded to do THIS...with is "noodle" which was really some cabbage!



Here are a few cute pictures from us goofing off today with the Mr. Potato Head pieces