Christian's Speech Journey

This is the progress of our 5 year old son's speech delay and the goals the school has for him and how he is improving.

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I have been married to a wonderful man for 10 years. Can you all see me sticking my tongue out at those who said we wouldn't make it????

We have two beautiful children. We have "Cletus" who is 10 and all boy! He is my miracle baby and was born 10 weeks early.

And we have "Princess" who turns 7 this month and is our laugh a minute. She most certainly acts like a princess so it is a good thing we've called her that since birth..

Oh and lets not forget our two chihuahua's. They are very much a part of our lives. We have a long hair named Angel and a short hair named Harley. Oh and we have recently added Thomas the cat. He is a Maine Coon and is quite the entertainer. He is fondly called Thomalomalu. Bet you can't tell where we are from??

Friday, January 19, 2007

Kindergarten!

WOW! Time has gotten away from me. I can't believe June was my last post. Since my last post, Christian has started kindergarten. We went through so many meetings but they were all worth it. We enrolled him in speech at the elementary school and he has shown a HUGE improvement.

He is still behind on speech but he is doing fantastic in the areas of math and reading. He can read! I was so proud of him at the last parent teacher meeting. She was telling me all these great things about him. She uses Christian has a peer instructor. He helps the kids who don't know their words yet. They were given a list of words at the beginning of the school year that they would be learning and he knows ALL of his! She sends home 8 page books and he is reading those.

He is also writing which he has been doing for some time so that isn't anything new.

It is so exciting to know that the little boy so many people thought would be behind on so many things forever is doing above and beyond what people thought he would! Don't ever stop at what they can do but keep them going. Set the bar high so that they can work up to it. I think you'll be surprised at how well they can and will do!