Nate's language is taking off in leaps and bounds! Which is great news....except that now that he's taking more risks with language and saying even more things it has become even more difficult to understand him. I am reassured by his SLP and a post I made on
APRAXIA-KIDS Facebook that this is very normal. Although it's become more difficult to understand him and we are all a little more frustrated with communication (Nate included), he's saying so many more things out of context which is a good thing. We're moving closer to conversations beyond the typical "I want this or that".
Yesterday he went on a summer school field trip to the aquarium and the conversation went a little something like this:
Me: Did you have a good time on your trip? What did you see?
Nate: Ummm....[pause] cab
Me: You saw a crab? [emphasized the /r/ in crab]
Nate: Uh-huh. [pause] A........spider cab.
Me: Wow, a spider crab?
Nate: He hurt me? (His question as of late is to ask if different animals or things will hurt him.)
Me: No, he won't hurt you.
Nate: [mumbled something like behind] gass (glass)
Me: Yes, he's behind the glass.
