Six Months

It's hard to believe, but it's been six months since Ryan got his hearing aids. Today we had him fitted for new ear molds because his ears have grown so much in the past six months. All we've been hearing for the past couple of weeks when he moves his head is high frequency whistling.

Six months ago...

He was making great progress immediately after getting them and over the summer, but now he's no longer pronouncing letter sounds that he was able to a couple of weeks ago. I believe the reason for this is because the school isn't providing adequate speech services. First we found out that he had accidentally been dropped from the speech list. Next it was because the speech therapist had been hospitalized. Now she's back in the hospital having some kind of surgery. I don't blame her and wish her the best, but shouldn't the school have a back up plan for this kind of thing? What gives? Who does this affect? Ryan. We moved to this school district three years ago to benefit our kids. The educational aspects of it have been great, but their special education therapy services have not been up to anyone's standards. He's so far behind in the amount of hours that the school is required by law to provide that I'm not sure when he will be caught up.

I didn't want to have to do this again, but it looks like we're going to have to call up the speech therapist that we paid out of our own pockets to pick up the slack before and have her add him back to her case load.

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Am I frustrated? Yes!!!