Lily In Bloom: Daddy Joins Us For Therapy and Lily Uses The T-comm!

Lily modeling her newly active T-comm

This weeks therapy session with Cheryl was super exciting because Lily's daddy got the chance to go and see exactly what happens behind the curtain. So far Bobby has only been able to see the videos and the amazing after effects of Lily's visits with Zimmerman Speech & Hearing Center. It was truly amazing to see how very excited Miss Lilybug was to see her daddy doing her therapy exercises with her as well as mommy and Cheryl!

We learned a new routine this week and it was so cute to see Lily pick it up almost instantly. We learned "shhhhh" where we put the little baby into a little crib and say "shhhhh". Lily actually put the baby in the crib and started whispering or at least what sounded like whispering. We were all pretty amazed at how quickly she got that one down. We are starting to notice that Lily is hitting a very stubborn phase so sometimes it is not so easy to get her to pick up on the routines. She is much more interested in her own desires lately, but she still seems to be doing phenomenally!

This week just happened to be one of the weeks where Lily had a mapping the day after her speech therapy. At last weeks therapy session we discussed with Cheryl if we should try out Lily's T-comm devices with her Neptune processors to see if there may be some good benefits for Lily. We were both in agreement that it would be a good idea so at this weeks mapping Lily got to try out her new T-comm devices! She did really well adjusting to them, but she does like to pull them off once she notices they are there. I assume, like her headpieces, she will leave them alone once she acclimates to them.

After her new programs were active and Lily was all set up her audiologist started talking to her and Lily actually responded to her! Lily usually runs around and does her own thing when not in the sound booth. We feel this was a pretty big step for Lily to realize she was being spoken to. We are noticing this more and more as the weeks go by. Lily responds to her name, the television, and music. She has a new found affinity for dancing as well and it almost sounds like humming! She sure is one happy little girl!

Let me share some pictures of how the T-comm setup looks with Lily's Neptune processors. We absolutely love that there are little flexible holding wires to keep the T-comm on her ears! It makes it so much easier to keep them on her.