This spring semester has been packed full of speech referrals, assessments, ARD meetings, and paperwork (mounds of paperwork... mountains of paperwork... my desk pretty much looks like the Alps). However, God has given me a few little successes that have filled my body and spirit with enough energy to wake up, prepare for each day, and sign-in to work each morning.
One little success story was with a young student, (of course I can't divulge specific details on the world-wide web, but here's a vague description) who qualified for speech therapy due to a severe/profound articulation/phonological disorder (>1 percentile). After only 5 months of intensive speech therapy, he was dismissed with about 95% PCC (percentage of consonants correct). This bright student came with a severely limited phonetic repertoire (he produce very few speech sounds) and was dismissed with the ability to produce every English phoneme with over 95% accuracy (including the sounds that the developmental norms deem as too complex for his age). Yea! This was confirmation that speech therapy DOES work and that my hard work isn't in vain.
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That is really cool to read about. Keep up the awesome work that God is allowing you to do :)
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