My daughter commissioned me to create this "thank you" gift for a very special lady. Lizanne Blake is the very talented speech therapist who helped my grandson learn to speak. To our family it's simply "Miss Liz".
One to two times a week for several years a highlight of the week was the visit to her office. On one of our visits, I got to go along. Not only did she have the coolest toys to play with, but she would get down on the floor in the midst of the boys and toys to play with them. I enjoyed seeing how she used the playtime to draw out and emphasize certain sounds needed for speech. "Good Talking, Micah!" "He's making all the right sounds, April" she would encourage. Then eventually the words came, and today, he is speaking fine. When I Skype the boys, to read them their weekly story, our once "speech delayed" boy, will tell his stories to me. That's music to my ears! He doesn't need to go to Miss Liz anymore, but he misses her. I'm happy I could have a part in this gift, because I want to say a big grandma THANK YOU to Liz Blake.
| "We love to go to see Miss Liz!" |