Repetition, Repetition and more Repetition. That was the theme from Baby B’s first session with the speech pathologist.

I was really amazed at how the speech pathologist not only interacted with Baby B, but maybe even more importantly, Baby A. And when I offered to take Baby A upstairs, she quickly said that Baby A would be one of her biggest helpers in getting his little brother to talk. So as she was working with the boys, talking with them, showing them different animials and showing them the sign language for them, she was teaching my wife and I what we needed to do to help when she is not there. And it came back to repetition.

Perfect example is that she had a box with paper animals in there. And she was knock on top of the box 3 times (again, repetition) and then she would say open. Well, Baby A, he was all over that, as it only took him seeing that 1 time to figure out what to do. Baby B, he was more observant. Studying what was going on and finally he walked over, knocked on the top of the box 3 times and she said Open and he got a toy out. Well, that just sparked it all. But it was that repetition that got it going.

This morning was a good session for him and for us. It gave us some information and tools that we needed to help out.

And tonight, as I prepare dinner and talk with the boys, I’ll be using as much repetition as possible.