Our Sat at Forum the Shopping Mall

We were at Forum the Shopping Mall last Saturday. Well, we had an appointment with Dynamics OTC, Therapy Centre For Kids that day. As Qianyi’s verbal development’s very slow compared to her peers, Hubby and I were pretty anxious and decided to bring her there for a speech assessment.

Throughout the one-hour therapy session, Qianyi refused to speak a word no matter how the therapist persuaded her. She started speaking only when it’s time for us to leave. The therapist told us Qianyi’s receptive skill is much better than her expressive skill. She also noticed that Qianyi is a very strong-willed girl. She understood most of the instructions but she preferred to do things her own way. The therapist told us to encourage her to ask before giving her anything that she wants. This therapist also suggested us to let Qianyi go for oral-motor exercises. It’s once a week, one hour per session. They will give her some special devices to chew for jaw exercises. We told her we needed to think about it first. We paid $150 for the speech assessment. When we asked for a report, she told us we needed to pay another $100 for them to prepare that. So, we didn’t ask for the report as it’s too expensive. As for the weekly oral-motor exercise, it’s $120 per session. Back home, Hubby search online for oral-motor exercise and found that it’s not really useful in the treatment of phonological disorders. We decided not to send Qianyi for that.

We went to Toys ‘R’ Us later. We met MediaCorp artiste, Xiang Yun there. She said hello to us first when she noticed I recognized her. She looked radiant and was very friendly. She guessed it right that Qianyi’s a two-year-old. When I told her Qianyi loved her Shop n Save’s advertisement, she said the “jie jie” (her daughter) who also appeared in the advertisement was there too and started calling for her daughter. When her daughter ran to us, Qianyi was too shy and lowered her head. We then said goodbye to each other. It’s great to see Xiang Yun, her two kids and her mum. But too bad, her hubby with ever-youthful look wasn’t with them.:)