Words

Jaxen's vocabulary lists:

1. Understandable words

• Go! (aka Doh!)
• Hello
• Bye
• Milk (aka Mock)
• Dog
• Moon
• Daddy
• Mom
• Uh-Oh
• Eww!
• Vvvroom! (sound of a car)

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     2. Un-understandable words (sounds that he makes for these words are ALWAYS the same - thus, he *thinks* he is saying the right word.)

• Chloe
• Jake
• Ty
• Out

It's taken a while, but I think we are finally starting to understand and communicate better with Jaxen.  After his diagnosis, we were given a lot of advice and opened a lot of doors and different ways of thinking for Jerry and I.  Jaxen's been trying to communicate with us all along, Mom and Dad just had to *learn* to understand him.  It seems that Jaxen is starting to say more words and communicate better non-verbally with us. . . it just proves he's known everything all along.  Mom and Dad were the problem and have finally figured out how to show Jax how to communicate with us better.  Things are only going up from here, with the help of Missouri First Steps, we plan on catching Jaxen up in the language department.  Hopefully, by his 3rd birthday he will be caught up completely and not need speech therapy through the school district.  However, failing to meet this goal isn't negative -- we already had in place a retesting date with the school district for a re-evaluation next school year (August/September - after school starts up).  And at that time, if more speech therapy is needed Jaxen will begin speech classes at the school. 

So ultimately, I could have 3 kids in Cass-Midway next year!  :-)
Though only 2 get to ride the school bus.

**This list will update as I think of other words Jaxen says OR if he starts to say more words.**