From the end of September of last year Matthew has had one on one speech therapy at home with Susan. She would come on Tuesday mornings and have some sounds for him to practice saying and if he did well he got to play a few learning games on her Ipad. The lessons were only an hour long but Matthew rarely had trouble sitting through the whole lesson.
The last week of September we said good bye to Susan. She has some time conflicts come up with her other job and had to let us go. We will miss her and are so thankful for all she's done to help Matthew express himself better.
Her last evaluation of Matthew showed just how far he's come. We had 35 sessions (35 hours) and when he started he was diagnosed as having both expressive and articulation disorder. Now he shows no delay in his expressive language. Although he still struggles to articulate his words, he has come so far in his speaking skills that it was the biggest improvement in such a short amount of time that Susan has ever seen. Some of our goals from when we first started were to have him identify each member of the family by name, speak using full sentences, and show articulation improvement of at least fifty percent. Well he knocked all those goals out of the park!! We are so proud of him and his hard work.
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