Cole's Speech Eval

We had someone come out and check on Cole's speech, this was an informal evaluation. Nancy arrived and Cole came running to greet her and was parroting almost everything that she said to him. She mentioned it is good that he greeted her and was parroting almost every word spoken. He threw a tantrum while she was in our home, he wanted gum and we wouldn't allow it. Once he calmed down, Tanner started causing ciaos. Nancy quickly noticed that Tanner had to be the center of attention the whole 2 hrs that she was in our home. We informed her that we discovered that when he is constipated, he is out of control and also when a visitor is in our home he has bad behavior. She pointed out to us that Tanner is the reason that Cole isn't much of a talker as he has learned to stay quiet and let Tanner run the show. Cole's blood curdling screams are because he is protesting for or against something and demands his way.

We need to work on three things: Tanner needs to have better behavior via cleaned out bowels, we need to be firm on Cole and not let him have what he wants, and we need to work on teaching Cole how to answer questions.

Nancy will come and visit us again around Jan. Cole will then have 4 months of being in a daycare. We hope that being around his peers and having structure where he wont get what he wants all the time will help him communicate better and lessen the screaming tantrums.