Second speech appointment

We had John's second session on Monday. The therapist was speaking to him in very short phrases (not even sentences!) and I was becoming increasingly frustrated. Hadn't she read the report about John and his receptive language? Maybe she was just used to children who had problems with expressive and receptive speech.

I verbalized my opinions to her (thankfully!) and she told me, firmly, that the point isn't what John can understand during speech and recognized that he can understand *a liot*, but what he can repeat. She told me that although he understands and carries out long commands, he doesn't repeat them. She suggested I limit myself to three (!!!) word phrases as much as possible. I guess he'll still get a lot of complex speech from our family times...

At the end of the session, she pointed out to me that John repeats "Bye-bye", which means that it is time to give him a longer phrase by adding a name at the end. So as he repeats my short phrases, I can add more words.