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We recently updated Lyra’s speech and language goals on her IFSP. Her speech therapist has been coming weekly for the last 12 weeks. She’s doing great and we’re considering changing her sessions to biweekly instead of weekly. She went above and beyond meeting her first set of goals...

I believe the delay in speech/language development can occur in kids with all types of albinism. Keep in mind, it might not be related to the albinism at all and at 17 months, I think it's really too early to worry. When my daughter was 22 months, she could only say 2 or 3 words other than mama and...

Most parents know how hard it can be to get your child to “perform” on command, but I decided to give it a shot. Here is Lyra showing off some of the words she’s learned over the last couple of months. She has been receiving regular speech therapy for the last month. Lyra even [......

This was an idea I got from Lyra’s TVI. I took pictures of a variety of toys and objects that Lyra was familiar with or played with regularly. To make them more durable, I taped them to poster board a cut them out. Then I put them into the plastic sleeves of some old photo [...]