Speech Graduation!

P-9 started speech therapy when he was 3 years old with our local school district. Everyone thought he was slow to talk because #1 he is a boy and #2 he has two very talkative older siblings that were more than happy to do his talking for him. (*I've written a little bit about his speech disorder before.) After two years with the school district, he aged up from the pre-school speech and language department and we were basically given the boot. I'll be nice about it, but basically we were erroneously told that because we home schooled, we could not receive services through the district. Luckily, we had awesome insurance and we went with private therapy with the same therapist for three more years. Last summer, she retired from working with clients to advocacy, so we were in need of another therapist. All that was left was the R sound, which is a real bugger. My sweet friend and neighbor just happens to be a speech therapist. One day as I was thinking about the situation, her face popped into my head. Now, this gal is one of the busiest people in the world, so I knew that it would be tough for her, but I asked her anyway. It worked out beautifully and P-9 was able to hop on his bike and go to speech twice a week. It's been about 6/7 months and that R is generalized!! He is now officially graduated from speech therapy after 6 years. For his final assignment she had him write a story using his target words and read it in front of an audience. He chose to do it at our house and he did a great job! Whoo Hooo!