As a family, we love to make progress. Progress in our lives, our finances,our goals. Eddie and I also have goals, not just for ourselves and our lives together, but also for the kids as well.
When Tobey was first diagnosed with autism, he was diagnosed as a nonverbal autistic. Meaning, he did not use verbal language to communicate. As you can imagine, this was very frustrating...for us as well as Tobey. We didn't know what he wanted...He couldn't express to us what he wants, even if it was pain. We knew immediately what our goal was for Tobey. This little guy needed to talk. after countless therapy sessions and 3 years of school, we started to make peace with the idea that Tobey would not talk.
I must now call attention to a word...WAS! This little guy, in the past 3 months, has gone from having a vocabulary consisting of 50 words to walking around with his daddy and naming off everything he sees. He sings songs. He recites his alphabet...he counts to 13.
When he wants a drink, he says drink. When he wants to go outside, he says he wants to go outside...he even verbally volunteers to put on his shoes and socks.
Progress is amazing. I know I usually post a longer blog than this, but this has been on my heart since earlier when I went shopping with Eddie and the monkey...BTW, if you say to Tobey,"Tobey is a..." he replies,"monkey". then he imitates a monkey!
Thank you, God, for progress.
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