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Dear Lynne, This is a thank you note for the time and effort you and your staff, particularly Vicki Claymon and Carrie Confer Kebelbeck, have put forward for our autistic grandson over the past two years. Now almost 4, our grandson has made what is to us amazing progress in the areas of communication. You might remember those first tenuous sessions. Every parent or caregiver is nervous, looking for results that justify going forward. And for our grandson those were indeed small steps. His main problem was moderate to severe speech production. Combined with receptive and expressive language delays our grandson’s speech intelligibility was very limited with both motor planning and articulation difficulties. The first year was dramatic. It seemed every week brought more clarity. It ended with all of us realizing his positive response to therapy could lead to great accomplishments. And, in the second year that happened. We now have a young 4 year old who, in all probability, will be mainstreamed (or is ‘inclusion’ the politically correct term?) at Kindergarten! And he’s autistic! His language is clearly understandable. He speaks in whatever length sentence is required. He verbally problem solves. What more can be asked for? Your therapists have produced results far above expectations, almost in the dream area! Of course there is fine-tuning needed. Like most autistics, he still struggles with how people feel. He pronunciation is not always clearly understood. But 80% of the time it is. And he is only 4. We feel results like this deserve communication. Please accept our thanks for your time and effort and please, please pass these words on to Carrie and Vicki. Best wishes for continued success. Bob and Sandie
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