K

Emily has been going to speech therapy since January. She is not pronouncing her L, K, or G sounds. I did not know what to expect when we started. When we sit down with Emily to work on her letters she does well, but that has not rolled over into everyday conversation and the speech therapist told us it would take time. Last Friday was Emily’s last session until probably the fall, but we are to keep working with Emily.

Well, Emily has decided that she no longer needs to do her homework because she does not get to see Laurie. The one thing we have learned through this whole process is that if Emily does not want to do her homework there is no point, because she just won’t co-operate. This week with the nice weather she wanted to ride her bike and with that she has been using her back sound and pronouncing her K. She is doing this on her own without any coaching! It’s kinda cute at this point because she stressing on the K so much. Now we will have to work with her on softening her K.

We still have lots to work on, but I am so proud of her for picking this up on her own. I asked her the other day about pointing at her throat when she does her back sounds and she told me that Laurie always did it so she must do it as well. She may go around for the rest of her life pointing at her throat when she talks, but at least people will be able to understand what she saying!