Life is not easy, and it's not happening always what we want.
For a long time I had a feeling that BB has speach problems. I tried to make appointment last year, but speach therapist said that BB needs to speak English before his first check up. At that time he didn't speak English at all. Yesterday, we were at speech therapist's office. BB's speech development is behind of his age, and he needs help. He can't pronounce seven sounds and all blends. That is the reason why he doesn't speak well, and why nobody understand him except me and my husband. His English vocabulary is also behind his age, but I'm not surprised. We didn't speak English at home, so he wasn't picked up so many words like kids who speak only English. Therapist is not so worried about his vocabulary, as she is about pronunciation. He is doing some strange movement with his tongue when he is trying to say something. Hope she will be able to help him.
One of the reasons why we signed BB to school was English. Now, I have a feeling that they didn't help him as we hoped they will. Most of English words BB picked up from our neighbor Audra. She comes to our house every day, and BB likes to play and talk with her.
I think we have to wait for a while to see how much therapist will help BB, and than we have to decide will he stay at school or not. I'm not happy how they work with kids. Most of their day activities they do on the floor during the circle time. Teachers don't use hand puppets, felt boards, applications,... I offered them some of our hand puppets, and other materials that we use at home, but they we not interested. I understand that is hard for them to communicate with BB, but they should do more to get him involved in activities that call for use more of English. Last two weeks BB is refusing to go there. He is telling me that he is board and he doesn't like boy who is throwing toys arround the room. I spoke with some of my friends, and they think I should have lower expectations from teachers and school. They also think I'm hard mom, beacuse I want to know everything what they do, how they do... Maybe I really have a problem, but I don't see it as a problem?! What do you think?!
Anyhow, next Monday BB will starting with the speech therapy. His therapist called me this morning to schedule next visit.
P.S. If you see that some letters are missing in this post, just ignore it. I'm writting this post from our laptop, and it's works odd. My DH took it to work one day, and laptop fall off his table. For few weeks I couldn't even start it. DH tryed to fix it, and it seems he did something... just keyboard works strange.