Where we are

I have a wonderful son that can brighten your day with his smile and laughter. He has so much energy that it is hard to keep up with him sometimes. He also has a speech problem and he tries his hardest to not let it get in the way of having fun. When I would hear other moms speak about speech problems that their child was having, it was more about the way they pronounced their words or that they couldn't speak at all. I kept an eye on the developmental skill charts and he was keeping up with them. So I never even thought that my son had a speech problem until he was 3 yrs old.

We started noticing that kids 6 months older than him could carry on a conversation and make up stories. Logan could talk and he would carry very short conversations with us, but nothing like the other children could. He was also beginning to "parrot" questions that we would ask or sentences we would say. So I called a Speech Therapy center to see about getting him tested. I had heard speech lessons could become very costly, so I was surprised to hear that our local school system could ask for the test to be performed and could provide speech therapy for free. Through speaking with Logan's daycare director, I found out that many Mom's are unaware that the school system can help their kids before they are of school age.

In fact, that is the very reason I decided to start blogging about Logan's speech therapy and progress. It is such an unknown area for us and we have been working with him for a year now. He has made good progress, but since he had a delay in his language skills he is having problems in Pre-K. I am very smart about most things IT, but I am not very knowledgable about what available resources there are for Speech Therapy. There is so much on the internet and we are taking everything in as much as we can, but all the information can be overwhelming and not all speech sites apply to him or his needs. So my way of figuring things out will be through this blog. They always say keeping a journal can help you more than you know, and I've heard the same is true about blogging.