So apparently Drew has never told you about the yewwow sink in our wittow baffwomb. He has a pretty significant issue with his l's and th's - that should be corrected by now. It was great that they were able to get him in the speech program because even though he scored poorly on the standardized test he was given, normally they have to prove that it is effecting his academic performance in some way - which it isn't. And they also look at whether it is causing a social issue because people can't understand him and/or they ask him to repeat himself - which is also not happening. It seems to me they might have pushed the boundaries just a little bit and got him in based on the likelihood that he might run into issues in the future because he sounds less mature than his same-age peers.
I'm super happy about it. He just needs that one-on-one practice and attention to focus his brain on what he's doing. We know he can physically make the sounds, he's just used to saying them incorrectly and then doesn't want to be bothered by correcting them when he's busy reading or talking. My guess is that with this extra attention he'll have it corrected by the end of the school year. I love that the speech therapist and his teacher didn't just blow it off.
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