Truman is continuing to make rapid progress in speech, particularly in the addition of vocabulary. He seems to have a huge vocab and is starting to even use some correct grammar (like the proper use of I and me and such). However, his diction is still very bad and is still extremely hard to understand. We still use sign language to translate when we don't understand him. He apparently remembers all the signs we learned, including ones he never used while we were mostly communicating with sign. However, he has developed a really bad stutter that makes it very difficult for him to get out even a single word sometimes. His speech therapist thinks the stutter is just a symptom of the rapid speech progress and that he will outgrow it. We are not treating it, for fear that shifting the focus to it will slow his otherwise lightning progress.
He has also finally started to sing a little. He usually quits once he realizes we're listening, but it's so nice to see him finally doing this staple of childhood.
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