Disabilities

   I am profusely blessed with not having children with severe disabilities.  I have so many friends with children dealing with ADD/Autism and Asbergers (sp?) and I can only imagine the struggles that they face on a daily basis and in the future.  So far in my children's young lives Kellen has been the only child that has shown any issues and really is a speech issue that big of a deal? 
   My sweet loving Kellen can talk to you, but you may only understand a handful of his words.  Forever I could not understand what this meant, "mommy, the bay took a tay and it fell into the tayet".  Translation: the boy took a toy and it fell into the toilet.  Yep, that's my little love bug with is cute raspy voice talking gibberish.  It gets worse since he has a problems with the letters r, d, l, s and many more that I can't figure out, but next week hopefully the speech pathologist will hear. 
    The most frustrating thing about your child having any kind of difficulty is that it is a constant fight to get someone to see them to get them the services they need.  Chad is a special ed teacher and we have friends who are in the field, so I knew what it was going to take and I'm still frustrated.  From the first contact request, which can only be by snail mail letter, the school district has 60 days to get back to you.  I wrote my letter in November and will finally get Kellen assessed next Thursday.  We're hoping that Kellen can get into a program that will help him to pronounce better and even though he's only 3 1/2 his speech will be the deciding factor if he goes to Kindergarten when he's 5 or 6 (since he's a July baby).  Ah, don't you just love being a parent, isn't it grand.