An Owen Update

Tuesday kicks off our fourth week of Private speech therapy. WOW. Lane and I see a huge difference already. But after teaching the Sunbeams today, I am wondering if anyone else can understand him. Owen spends thirty minutes twice a week working with a sweet speech pathologist named Mrs. Kelly. We have to remember he has been working with a speech therapist since he was 30 months old. At school we are working on three syllable words. Mrs. Kelly started him off with vowel sounds. I was a little concerned to say the least. I went to Owen’s school speech therapist and she reassured me that we needed to give it a chance and am I glad we did. He quickly moved to linking two vowels together and now we are moving on to consonants strung with vowel sounds ie: Bay, Bow, Bee… So progress is being made. He will also voluntarily speak. He like to tell little stories. We have to really listen, he still uses some different sounds instead of words but he is initiating the talking. I just really look forward to hearing what is in that little man’s head.
We also got his assessment back from Dr. Loo at UCLA. I just have to say once again that man was so amazing. You just knew he knew what he was talking about. So… Owen is verbally challenged. He tested at 70 months in the critically thinking areas and visual reception areas. So yes, he is pretty smart in that brain of his. It also says “He is a handsome boy.” Like we needed a doctor to tell us that.
So that is where Owen is now. He is on track break and when he goes back to school he will be in speech therapy for two and a half hours a week. Please just keep praying that he continues to make the progress he is. With Apraxia this is not normal… But when has any of our family been normal.