hearing talking reading

So its been 4 weeks since Owen had his ear tubes put in and this time we noticed a difference within 2 days, with him trying new sounds and his attentiveness, it was almost painful to see, it made us realise just how poor his hearing had been in the months before the operation. In the last week we have noticed Owen repeating words we say, although its not clear words yet but definately he is getting the inflection right or the syllables right - music to our ears !


Also we have had an iPad for a week today - we got it through some therapy funding that became avaliable, (which involved a mile of paperwork but so worth it ). It has been amazing to watch Owen learn to use the iPad. He and Cy sat together and without any prompting from me they worked out together how to use the touch screen. I am now on the look out for good apps for Owey.


I already had my eye on the Special Words App based on resources from Down Syndrome Education International. I had always meant to download, print and laminate the resource pack from them but never got around to it (just too many steps involved there!). So this app was perfect for us.


The app is good it starts out with matching pictures to pictures, then words to pictures then word to word. Owen has been sight reading words from Your Baby Can Read DVD's but has been able to transfer that knowledge to this app and what is most exciting for me is hearing him trying to say the words! Visuals are really important for Owey, somehow it really helps to short circuit his dyspraxic tendancies so we have been hearing lots of new word attempts using this app. Anyway here he is rock'n it....