Well, all three of the girls are now in Speech. Linda is officially in Speech with an IEP and everything. She is constantly getting asked if she if from England. Sometimes she likes that and sometimes she doesn't. Her speech teacher said that correcting Linda's speech will be difficult because Linda's speech does not follow the normal patterns they see. We are going to have her start attending speech twice a week at school now. If we don't see improvement we will look in to a private speech therapist.
Jane has pretty typical speech problems, mostly the r sound. She will not get an IEP at this point. The speech teacher will work with her. She actually saw improvement just in Jane's first session with her, which leads us to believe that she may have just picked up on bad speech habits from the older kids. We're really hopeful her speech difficulties will be cleared up by the end of the year.
Claire will also be attending speech for her r and a couple of other sounds. She will not get an IEP either but will be worked with. I was surprised when helping in her Kinder class last week when an adult asked if we had moved here from England. (because of Claire's accent)
With all three girls in speech, working on a lot of the same things, Robert and I really hope that they will all catch on. What really makes me laugh inside is when Bruce corrects their speech. He speaks really well, but I think back on the 3yrs. of speech classes he had and how I used to have to translate what he was saying to everyone. Proof that speech can be fixed.
