We had our second visit to the Child Development doctor on 27 August. The doctor was someone new to us because the previous one was away for this period. We had to go briefly with her Ian's development all over again.
She did a simple assessment of Ian by showing some age-appropriate pictures, asking him to stack some blocks, and testing his responses to what she said. The doc thought that he was doing OK, and told us to continue with the speech and occupational therapist, and then see her again in December.
On 31st, we visited the speech and occupational therapists. The former did an assessment for Ian to test where his language and comprehension skills stood. She showed him some pictures and he could answer most of it. However, she noted that he could not comprehend when she used words ending with the '-ing' form. Our homework was to reinforce his language and comprehension by spending some time on a daily basis, to play with him and teach him new things, by emphasizing and repetition, and by keeping our sentences short and precise.
The session with the occupational therapist did not go as smoothly though. Perhaps it was Ian's nap time then, and hence, Ian was quite uncooperative. The therapist began by drawing out a simple timetable to show Ian what he was to expect - a few minutes of table work (matching game), followed by a physical activity (which Ian loved), followed by table work again (drawing and colouring), followed by another physical activity (which Ian loved), and table work again (geometric stacker). Ian could hardly pay attention at the table, until it was getting a bit frustrating to get him to complete his task towards the end.
Anyway, some quick statistics of Ian which the nurse took during our visit:
Weight: 14.5kg
Height: 94cm
We were glad that he had passed the 14kg mark convincingly this time!
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