21 months: Whitney's Physical Therapist just had a baby and we got a new therapist. She wanted to make sure her more needy cases got a therapist while she was on maternity leave. This one has an interesting background of study. Our old PT was really pushing WWW to walk, but she has not yet pulled up. This therapist is about reaching appropriate milestones in order.....crawling, pulling up, cruising, walking. I really liked that point of view. She kept saying that whitney's crawling is her own therapy sessions. That was cool....therapy does not always involve tears and screaming! I may see if we can stay with this new therapist. We will see in a couple of weeks.

We all had the flu about 2 weeks ago. Whitney slid back a bid due to that. She is having standing trouble again. We will catch back up.

Speech Therapy is really great. She LOVES her therapist. We have taken pictures of all the things in WWW's environment...toys, foods...and use those pictures to communicate. WWW really gets the idea. If we show her the doll picture, she touches the doll. We combine that with the sign for doll to reinforce different abilities to communicate. She is using more vocalization to communicate. I finally have a name...mam. Of course her favorite word is "no"...nah, nah, nah.

We go back to the Neurologist next month on the 13th. She has had a lot of progress, but he did indicate he wanted to see her walking. We are several months away from that. I would really LOVE to know what is going on with her. Knowing is always better.