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Jenni “JWoww” Farleyis optimistic about her son’s future.
In a recent interview withHollywood Lifewhere she revealed that her 2½-year-old younger childGreyson Valorhas beendiagnosed with autism, the reality star also went into detail about how she is planning to assist in her son’s continual “positive, positive” progress.
“He has co-therapies [every] week but we’re going to step it up a notch soon and get him ABA treatments, speech therapy,” said Farley, 32, raving about how Greyson has “made leaps and bounds when it comes to speech.”
“He’s understanding words better which was his issue,” she said. “Notthat he couldn’t speak, but he wouldnever know what his shoe is or if you said, ‘Greyson,’ he actually didn’t even know his name at one point until he was a little over 2,” she explained. “So now that he’s understanding simple words, he’s come so far.”
“He only did ‘blue’ for a year and within the last two weeks he knows green, yellow, red, white and he’s [doing sign language] so much more,” continued theJersey Shore: Family Vacationstar. “I’m like a proud mom over here.”
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Farley — who also shares 4-year-old daughterMeilani Alexandrawith estranged husbandRoger Mathews— divulged that she has felt “frustrated” in the past due to others’ preconceived notions about Greyson.
“The only thing that frustrated me is there was only one sign shown where he didn’t speak and a lot of people would be like, ‘Oh, his sister’s speaking for him,’ or, ‘He had nothing to say,’ ” she toldHollywood Life.
But in reality, “He didn’t understand words.” As Farley explained, “It waslike I was speaking another languageto him. That was the frustrating part because it didn’t fill in. He didn’t understand what you were saying.”
“It was really heartbreaking and frustrating as a mom when you see other 2-year-olds that are speaking and living their best life,” sheadded toHollywood Life, clarifying to the contrary, “Greyson is living his best life. He just doesn’t know what you are saying!”
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“I started realizing that Meilani was getting these flareups — she has the most beautiful skin in the world and it would be frustrating to her and myself so I started doing at-home eczema treatments with all-natural essential oils,” she toldHollywood Life.
“Then I traveled to France over a year ago to study lavender and calming agents and skin agents and that was around the time thatGreyson started having developmental delayswhere he has sensitive skin as well but he can’t tell me, ‘Oh this hurts,’ where Meilani would be like, ‘Dude, this itches! You can’t put this on me!’ ” Farley added.
“But then parents started asking me and so I started making this a thing,” the mother of two recalled. “It was over two years ago I started it but it was when I went to France where I said, ‘I’m going to make this and it’s going to beNaturally Woww!’ “
source: people.com
