I met with Corwin’s speech teacher yesterday. He’s been taking speech since kindergarden to correct some lisping tendencies. I thought his “Hawy Potter” was very cute, but probably not good for his long term development. Dad took speech around this age too, so perhaps it runs in the family. The speech teacher declared Corwin cured. At least when he’s thinking about it, his speech comes out correctly. When he doesn’t think about it, sometimes it doesn’t come out right, but only practice will help that. So we are done with speech class for now. I forgot to warn the speech teacher that she will likely be seeing Charles next year. His “awight” is doomed to be corrected.
P.S. Dad wants to note that Corwin was also given a vocabulary test, in which he was shown pictures and he had to name the thing, activity, or class of thing in the picture. The test measured up to 12 year old equivalent. Corwin’s score was off the scale. I think that’s wonderful — I now that there’s nothing like an abnormally extensive vobularly to be the popular guy at parties. Heck, look what it did for me!