Dear Amanda and Small Steps Members,

I’m writing to tell you how much my family and I appreciate the grant that we received for my son, Julien, last spring.  Since receiving the grant Julien has been able to attend speech every week for one session a week instead of twice a month previous to the grant.  This has been a great help to Julien making progress in his speech as well as other areas such as reading and writing.  He is now attending third grade here on the Oregon coast.  …His teachers in both classrooms have been very impressed by Julien’s progress in speech within the last 8 months.  I too have noticed a significant improvement in his ability to communicate since attending private speech therapy more often.  My family and I greatly appreciate this grant and we hope that Small Steps can continue to help others as much as it has helped out us.  Thank you very much from all of us.

Submitted by Julien’s family