Day 215: A Final Speech Therapy Sesson

Posted on | April 3, 2008 |

Speech Therapist — $60.00

On the way to speech therapy The Son announced that he didn’t think he’d need any more sessions.  I was a little surprised because I know it’s been going pretty well for him.  He said on Tuesday he’d received a writing assignment in his English class and was able to get started writing on it right away.  He was obviously proud of himself.

I pushed him a bit (well, maybe baited) by asking if he felt he’d be prepared to start doing writing assignments for me at home.  He said yes.  Then I asked if he thought he’d be open to taking more academically-oriented classes through the homeschool co-op, classes like High School English.  He said he thought so.

That is definitely a breakthrough for him.  I’m not going to hold my breath or pretend that a miracle has happened and that all of his communication difficulties will melt away.  Even The Son said that he didn’t think that the whole writing “dam” had been broken down but, for now, he feels confident in continuing to write without the help of the therapist.

I’m thrilled that, one, he’s made as much progress as he has in such a relatively short amount of time; two, that this hurdle that at one point looked insurmountable appears to have been jumped (or is at least a little smaller and more scalable than it once was); and, three, that the weekly expense has come to an end.  Even if, at some point in the future, he feels the need for another bout of speech therapy sessions, at least it’s over for now.

Related Posts for Further Reading

• 187: Speech & Food
• Day 180: Supplements, Co-Pays, Speech, & Emergency Groceries
• Day 166: Colonics, Underwear, Groceries, Bedding, and Speech Therapy
• Day 159: Groceries! and Speech
• Day 138: Undies and Outers, Speech and Baseball
• Day 131: Speech Therapy and Gospel Music

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