So yeah, Luke just started pre-school. He loved it of course, but Mandy and I had a rough time with it. He's only 3 and I guess we just figured we wouldn't have to deal with this for a few more years, but what do you do?? He's got a speech disorder called Verbal (or Speech) Apraxia. Some of the signals his brain sends to his mouth to tell it where to position itself for talking and eating get lost between his mouth and his brain. So, he's getting help teaching a different part of the brain to take those functions over. Our brains are cool that way I guess. And honestly, he's no worse for wear because of it. He knows more words in sign language than most 5 year olds can speak, so once his brain is fully controlling his mouth again, speech will be a breeze. And he does speak and eat, he just doesn't have the vocabulary most kids his age do and he has a hard time chewing some food up. He's really probably too smart for his own good.
