Speech Theraphy

I responded mostly so that people would realize that there are many ways to have speech delays or difficulty pronouncing words and to be encouraged by our results. All three of my brothers have great personalities and are smart each in their own way. My brother with a 60 IQ works at the Canadian Border cleaning and making more money per hour than most peoople. He has a job coach and is in an assisted work environment. One time, none of us could start a car and he went out and started it. We asked him how. He said that there is a short in some cars in the rod you shift and if you pull it toward you and turn the key (one hand for each from the way he was miming it so it can be done at the same time), you can make it start. He failed his try at mechanics class horribly with a 50%. But that 50% had one thing we all needed. Even though he failed that class, he learned things he needed in life. Also, one night we were watching Jeopardy (a show I believe is all over the world), the top heading was "Locomotion." He asked, "What's that?" I told him, "the way things move." So "a rabbit" My brother kept saying, "Hop, hop, come on, say hop somebody," Peep, time up. Alex Tribec says, "What is hop?" My brother says, "Why don't they know that rabbits hop?" What can you say to a 60 IQ person when he knows something people with 125 to 180 or higher don't know and it's common knowledge? "Maybe they're city people?" My hearing impaired brother can fix things other people can't. He saved a snowmobile club thousands upon thousands of dollars, even though the repairs cost thousands to fix a trail maker. To repair it is cheaper than buy a new one and they don't make parts for it any more. Someone's boat bottom was ruined and he redid the bottom to stronger and way more beautiful than the original bottom was. The first thing I described was welding metal and the second was wood. He's great with objects and creativity. Right now he just chops wood and seasons it for burning in fire places and stoves. But he has another custom order coming soon. The middle one can fix and jerry-rig (juri-rig?)anything with a motor. During the ice storm, he and his friends got a ceased-up generator that hadn't been run in years going again to power his home. It was a van generator, so he also had to change and adapt it to home use. He keeps cars going that nobody else can. He has the eye-to-hand co-ordination to do things that many people only wish they could do. I think you wrote about spinal bifida (spelling?). There are many people who have done great things that have that. I know one person who is a writer for the Spinal Bifida Foundation, society, association or whatever the group name. Whatever it's called in the USA. She used to do my resumes for me and at one point she was doing painting from pictures for people for Christmas. It's so exciting to see young people find what they're good at. Even more so in a family with disabilities. It's not the disabilities, it's the abilities and what they do with them. That's what's really cool. Raising your child will be quite an adventure. Just always set goals and then teach him to set goals for himself. The worst thing in the world is for a person with disabilities to believe he or she can do nothing, has no skills and will never become anything. I see that when I teach all the time. Sometimes nothing but overcoming deficiencies is drilled into them and what they like or love is either ignored or there is no time for it because everyone is busy with them being able to do what they can't. They must find what they're good at and set goals. If they do that, they can have a wonderful life.