Zane started speech therapy a few weeks ago. Due to a qualification loophole, Zane is not receiving speech therapy services through his elementary school. We are doing outside speech therapy to attempt to correct sounds that he is struggling with. As we have started to work with him the SLP (speech language pathologist) feels his major issue is with his tongue and jaw. Zane tends to overcompensate with his jaw for sounds that are difficult to make. So he has a lot of exercises that will require practice. The positive thing is once this issue is figured out and corrected the SLP feels most of his sounds issues will resolve on their own. Which really is great news. So here we go with a new round of speech therapy. I am ready to tackle it. And I think Zane is too!
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Maybe a lot of my fair lady in your near future LOL?
Since it is a jaw thing does that qualify as a disability for the school at all?
GO Zane!
I don't think so for the school. Although it is definitely something I could maybe push. I don't know that the school lady really evaluated down that avenue. Supposedly the new SLP is supposed to be e-mailing the school SLP. They know each other from working together in the past. It would be good to have some collaboration.
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