{"id":59634,"date":"2018-10-15T09:25:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T14:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/mchenry\/?p=59634"},"modified":"2018-10-15T09:25:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T14:25:04","slug":"speech-spotlight-matthew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/mchenry\/programs\/speech-spotlight-matthew","title":{"rendered":"Speech Spotlight: Matthew"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matthew, age 4, has completed 2.5 10-week sessions of the Amina Grace Speech and Language Program.\u00a0 Matthew’s mother enrolled him in the program because, “Matthew is nonverbal and this program is close to home and free.”\u00a0 Matthew is working hard to increase his communication skills.\u00a0 He has been working on sign language as well as using an iPad to help him use communication for a variety of functions.\u00a0 Matthew is working on following directions and imitating speech sounds.\u00a0 His favorite activities are music and playing ball during speech sessions.\u00a0 Matthew’s mom reports that he is finally communicating more with their family.\u00a0 She has seen a lot of progress after enrolling Matthew in the Amina Grace Speech and Language Program.\u00a0 “I am so happy with all of his progress!”<\/p>\n

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\u201cMy experience with the Amina Grace Speech and Language program has been fantastic. Matthew\u2019s progress has been great. He is learning more and focusing every day that we come here. Mrs. Thomson also help us prepare for his IEP meeting and with the iPad that he got free from Inspire Dream Foundation. They requested a letter from the speech therapist explaining his needs and she did all that for him. Thanks to this program Matthew is communicating more. Here is a short story I would like to share. My mom took care of Matthew one day. I have a niece who is learning sign language because she wants to communicate with him. So that day my niece was there too. Matthew started signing for eat and drink and my mom did not understand. My niece came and asked him what he needed and he began to sign for her and she explained to my mom what he was asking for. Every day that we come to GiGi\u2019s he gets so happy. Mrs. Thomson is also helping to stay in touch with the school so they can help him more and be on the same page so his progress gets better and finally one day he will talk and be independent. Thank you Amina Grace Speech and Language program.\u201d -Mayra, Matthew\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matthew, age 4, has completed 2.5 10-week sessions of the Amina Grace Speech and Language Program.\u00a0 Matthew’s mother enrolled him in the program because, “Matthew is nonverbal and this program is close to home and free.”\u00a0 Matthew is working hard to increase his communication skills.\u00a0 He has been working on sign language as well as…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/mchenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/mchenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/mchenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/mchenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/mchenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/mchenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/mchenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/mchenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/mchenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}