Speak up, will you?

And again I'm worried about A and his lack of speech.

let's see...

Can name a number of objects common to his surroundings check

Is able to use at least two prepositions, usually chosen from the following: in, on, under no prepositions exist for A

Combines words into a short sentence-largely noun-verb combinations (mean) length of sentences is given as 1.2 words I believe A's only short sentence is "I want it" and that's not used very much, and only if he is in a good mood.

Approximately 2/3 of what child says should be intelligible not a single bit is what you would consider intelligible

Vocabulary of approximately 150-300 words we are lacking.. I need to make another list to keep track of his words

Rhythm and fluency often poor I don't think he says enough to even consider the rhythm of fluency

Volume and pitch of voice not yet well-controlled check, it would be hard to fail here

Can use two pronouns correctly: I, me, you, although me and I are often confused absolutely no pronouns used

My and mine are beginning to emerge nope

Responds to such commands as "show me your eyes (nose, mouth, hair)" check

His receptive language (understanding what is said to him) is good, and he responds when he is spoken to. A little while ago, J came and asked me for some more juice, and A came up right away offering him his cup.
He is very easily frustrated and reacts by hitting his head, either by slamming it on something (a wall, a door, the floor, the closest person - which last night happened to be Daddy and his face.. a far than happy Daddy). He does like to repeat words you say to him. I'm trying to work on him with saying things, so the other night I was asking him "What do you want?" when he was throwing a tantrum. His response was "want." I asked, "What do you need?" He said, "need." Then he went back to his tantrum. He loves Signing Time and has learned a lot of new signs from it, just from Christmas (he and J together got the first 6 DVDs). But I've noticed, even with the limited signs we did before ST, his fine motors are weak. When he signs things that don't involve the entire hand, he will only use his thumb and index finger. Signing water? Thumb and index bumping his face. Juice? Shaking thumb and index. 2 years old? Thumb and index up. Yellow? Shaking thumb and index. Mommy? Thumb and index bumping his face. I Love You? You know what the answer is.

Intellectually, I know that his language is affected by his prematurity and all of his ear infections (and on that note, I think he has an ear infection right now and this probably explains his fall in the tub the other day). Emotionally, I feel frustrated and sad when I hear or hear of other two year olds speaking full sentences, communicating clearly, even telling colors or numbers or whatnot. I really need to get him set up with Sooner Start for a speech evaluation and therapy, but the stupid website doesn't have an application to print off and I really don't have time (especially child-free) to go to the DHS office to fill out papers.


A's words

1. mama
   
2. daddy
   
3. Prince J (Iya)
4. Prince D (nano or no)
   
5. grandma (ma-ma)
   
6. alexis (a-ish)
   
7. yaya
8. noah
9. boppy (nursing)
10. Nemo (mo-mo)
    
11. juice (zhoosh)
    
12. bath (bah-gh)
13. more
14. "want it"
15. baby (for Baby Signing Time)
16. shoe
17. sock
18. cheese
19. grapes
20. orange
21. dirty
22. poopoo
23. peepee
24. tree
25. Christmas (its)
26. train
27. star
28. Ces (dash.. gotta work this one out of his system! I am MOMMY!)
29. banana
30. playdoh
31. cookie
32. candy (nanee - took a while to distinguish this from daddy)
33. Woody (from Toy Story)
    
34. car (dah)
35. no
36. please (peash)
37. help (hep)
38. ow
39. stop
40. mine
41. night-night
42. bye-bye
43. hi
44. moon
45. hot
46. feet (no foot, just feet)
    
47. lips (for chapstick)
48. keys
49. lunch
50. eat
51. bites
52. dog
53. puppy
54. kitty
55. eyes
56. nose
57. duck
58. chicken
59. horse
60. cup
61. chocolate
62. kiss
    
63. Jesus
64. here (as in, take it)