Daily Archives: August 5, 2008
The beginning or the end?
Let me apologize in advance to my readers from New Jersey.
Ellie starts speech therapy today. (If you’re wondering why, check out this post.) It may be the beginning or the end. When we had her evaluated a couple weeks ago, I was excited about the help she would receive. I thought about how much easier it would be for her to learn to read if she were actually pronouncing her words correctly. Yesterday she tried to tell me that “yellow” starts with ‘L’ — “lello.” Imagine if her phonics actually matched her enunciation! Well, the excitement lasted about twenty minutes into the one-hour-plus evaluation. It was at that point I heard the specialist ask a nasal “Which dawg has a lawng tail?”
Today may be the beginning or the end. If the therapist assigned to our case talks like that, I think we’re going to have to quit. I mean, do I really want to pay someone to teach my kid to talk with a Jersey accent? Aren’t all therapist supposed to be accent-free?
