Speech, speech!
posted Sunday June 7th, 2009
This morning, Sophie was in our bed (as usual) and Ray was teasing her (as usual) and she said, clear as a bell, “Don’t attack me again, Daddy.”
I sat up. Wow. “Good sentence!” I told her.
Sad that typical play — whatever that is — has to be interrupted by such thoughts, but hey, such is our lives. Here’s an email I came home to, from Sophie’s speech therapist, who facilitated a play date this for her with another little girl to work on communication skills. This is verbatim, reports the therapist, who was tickled (me too):
Sophie: “Let’s play school! Ok……….I am the teacher.”
Jordan: “Ok……….I am the principal.”
Sophie: “Ok…….I own this school.”
Jordan: “No……a teacher can’t own a school.”
Sophie: “I think………a teacher can do what she wants. I wanna own this school.”
End of discussion—no comeback from Jordan. She accepted defeat gracefully 
I guess it’s safe to say (the therapist concluded) that Sophie does not need to work on the goal of developing and expressing opinions verbally.
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