Movie Star

This week for my final project in Language Acquisitions class we had to film a video document on a speech impaired child. Alex was the perfect candidate for this project because he has both a speech impediment and ADHD. He had a fun time being filmed and constantly asked to review the tape. He smiled each time he saw himself on the video camera. Alex was a big help on my project. He participated freely and willingly. It was sad to discover that Alex fell into the category of where a two to three year old child would fall into as basing it on speech standards. I feel bad for Alex because he was adopted from Ukraine when he was two. In those orphanages children were left alone in cribs with little to no social exposure. It’s a sad thought that children are living like that and I am very happy that Alex was one of those children that were saved.