Caleb and I were able to meet this afternoon with the NKC Special Education Director and his speech pathologist. We were meeting to discuss his progress this school year and discuss how he had met his planned goals for the year (all of his 6 year old sounds met). We usually get speech therapy 2 days a week (30 minutes each) through the NKC school district and knew going into the program that they could only work on age appropriate sounds in these sessions. What that means is that even though Caleb does not have his blend sounds (bl, th, sl), his r sound, and a couple other 7 year old sounds, they would not be able to work on those sounds while he is still 6. He was not saying 6 year old sounds and 1 5 year old sound when we began this year and the therapist has continuously commented to me this year that he is fine. I was worried, because I still hear so many sounds missing and so much mumbling, but I am a paranoid mother who has been going to speech since he was 2 years old!
Anyway, the director was very impressed with the sounds we were worked on today, but worried some about his language skills. He has a hard time with pronouns, plurals, and other small sentence structure problems. She also noticed he is missing the l sound sometimes. Because she thinks he could be mildly Apraxic from what I have described to her and what she saw, she thankfully decided not to cancel our speech altogether. Instead, we are re-writing his goals to include the l sound and some language stuff. We will begin meeting only once a week now instead of 2 times a week too. She wants to come in and listen to him more to get a better idea of what he might be doing with his tongue or what might be causing the muttering. He was kinda shy today and didn't talk much like she hoped. She knows that he will definately qualify for more time when he is 7 and thinks keeping him on as a student for now is in his best interest. I am really pleased with how the meeting went. So we will now be home on Thursdays all day and only go out for Speech on Tues afternoons. I will keep you posted on how he continues to do with that...
PS - Catherine, I would love to have dinner with you again soon so I could get your opinion too since the last time we met. Out treat! Let us know when you are free one evening and we can meet you in Liberty for dinner.
Anyway, the director was very impressed with the sounds we were worked on today, but worried some about his language skills. He has a hard time with pronouns, plurals, and other small sentence structure problems. She also noticed he is missing the l sound sometimes. Because she thinks he could be mildly Apraxic from what I have described to her and what she saw, she thankfully decided not to cancel our speech altogether. Instead, we are re-writing his goals to include the l sound and some language stuff. We will begin meeting only once a week now instead of 2 times a week too. She wants to come in and listen to him more to get a better idea of what he might be doing with his tongue or what might be causing the muttering. He was kinda shy today and didn't talk much like she hoped. She knows that he will definately qualify for more time when he is 7 and thinks keeping him on as a student for now is in his best interest. I am really pleased with how the meeting went. So we will now be home on Thursdays all day and only go out for Speech on Tues afternoons. I will keep you posted on how he continues to do with that...
PS - Catherine, I would love to have dinner with you again soon so I could get your opinion too since the last time we met. Out treat! Let us know when you are free one evening and we can meet you in Liberty for dinner.
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