SPEECH THERAPY VIDEOS

I mentioned back in September that Devon was going to be starting speech therapy for the third time. He was released from therapy mid-March with definite improvement. I made a video series of his progress for us, as well as for his therapist, teacher, and principal, but I figured I'd also share it here.

#1 - This movie was made on 9/19/13 while he had a habit appliance in his mouth and before he started speech therapy.

#2 - This movie was made on 9/23/13, which was after the habit appliance had been removed and before speech therapy started.

#3 - This movie was made on 4/27/14, which was 6 1/2 weeks after he was released from speech therapy.

He's not quite at 100%, but neither I nor the other Ws have to ask him to repeat things or tell him he's unintelligible anymore, both of which we used to do multiple times a day. Any remaining problems are primarily due to the fact that he talks fast (no clue where he got that trait from) and not because he doesn't know how to speak properly. That means he was able to stop therapy and just needs to slow down and enunciate more clearly from time to time.

I'm so thankful that there are people in the world who have more help to offer than the completely useless "slow down and enunciate" that I was suggesting to a child who didn't know how to enunciate. I'm thankful for speech therapists. I'm thankful for schools that offer help to kids with a wide variety of struggles. I'm thankful that Devon is better understood by people he talks to now than he was for his whole life up to this point.