It has been 3 days since we saw the speech therapist and we are having a rough start.  So far we have had to take juice away from Lil Tony.  We decided that the things he REALLY wants we would refuse to give unless he starts saying the word.  So since we still allow him access to the fridge, he still brings us juice or whatever it is that he wants to drink.  Right now we are working on juice.  So he brings the jug of juice and we ask him to say the word.  He throws his usual fit, we calm him down, repeat juice he refuses and so we tell him “no juice”.  We repeat this a time or two and then finally just put the juice away and he gets none.  We still allow him to have milk and water, we repeat the words when he asks but haven’t refused yet. 

I am happy that he is at least paying attention to the words we are saying.  I make sure he is listening to me (not throwing a fit) and looking at me.  He hasn’t made any attempts at saying words but I am hoping one day, SOON, that he will just bust out saying juice or something close to it. 

He has started to shake his head yes and no.  If I ask him something I either get a shrug of the shoulders (with the sound of “I don’t know) or a head shake of yes or no.  I feel like that is progress I know not to being vocal but at least he is showing he understands what yes and no means.  At least that’s how I feel.  Will I stop trying to get him to talk, absolutely not, but any changes in his communication is a plus in my book.  Hopefully things will get progressively better over the next couple weeks.

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