As I've mentioned before, Noa has started trying to copy sounds and words. Sometimes, if she is feeling confident she'll skip using the sign completely (though right now book and drink sound an awful lot alike which can be the cause of some serious heartbreak).
Here we have Noa counting with me to 10 - and then doing some great playing. The video includes a lot of her favorite stuff. Anyway, we've been using counting to 10 for transitions for a long time with Noa so she's been listing to these numbers for a long time. Counting is helpful for kids with all kinds of special needs but has been particularly helpful in our case because Noa can't see the cues that might let her know that something is about to finish (like mommy packing things up, or that we're getting close to the chair where she's going to sit). It gives her ome time to get herself prepared for what is coming next.
As you will hear, the numbers can get pretty creative. Numbers with hard sounds, like three, eight and ten tend to be easier than numbers like five and seven that include sounds that are softer or smoother. I think she just likes the way it feels to say two. But the interesting thing that we don't quite know is whether her difficulty with some sounds is a difficult in hearing the difference between the sounds, in making the sounds, or some of both. I suspect some of both, though more and more I think she has trouble telling the difference between sounds when she hears them and sometimes gets more from the tone and intention of a sentence than she does from a singular word.
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