Little Miss Abigail just might be attending college next semester! Well... Kinda!
I had posted several months ago that I thought Abbie had a speech impediment. At the time most everyone thought I was reading too much into it. After all, the girl was a Spanish Speaking Senorita and then all of a sudden she thrown into Gringo land!
Since we are a border town to Mexico, I know a little bit of Spanish. At least enough to know how it should sound. When Abbie came home her Spanish sounded like Chinese to us! At least to me it did. Then as the months went by we kinda thought she was speaking a form of "Spanglish" as we call it (a mix of Spanish and English thrown together). We thought since we were still having problems understanding her this must be the case.
But now... Everyone is agreeing that Abbie is having speech problems. They have all ruled out language problems.
Abbie understands 90% of what we are saying to her but she just cant speak the words back. Dont get me wrong, the girl is a chatter box, and a LOUD one at that! For the most part we know what she is saying or at least what she wants but no one else can. Sometimes she just gives up and just points to what she is trying to say. She's starting to catch on that people cant understand her, so she just gives up. Make sense?
So... we found out about a program that is given at the college. I really don't know a lot about it but from what I can gather... Abbie will receive speech therapy while the students are learning how to teach.
A win win situation!
Abbie has already went once to get comfortable with the surroundings and she has also had her hearing tested. No problems there.
She will go back on Thursday and they will do a few more tests to try and determine if they think Abbie needs therapy. I have not doubt that she does but if they think she needs more help than what they can give her, I'm sure they will recommend someone else.
So... This just might be the next girl on College Campus!
