Taking My Job With Me

This week I noticed a girl at the orphanage who has a very bad lisp. I debated whether or not I should attempt to help this girl correct her lisp since my Spanish is so poor. I wondered if I would be able to help her at all. Today I mentioned to Emily (the permanent volunteer that helped us get into the orphanage) that I do speech therapy in the United States. She was thrilled and asked if I could help another child as well. She said there aren't any speech therapists in Peru! I told her there was no way I could treat kids with language problems (seeing as how I have a language problem as well in Spanish), but that I could probably help kids with articulation problems (i.e., pronunciation problems, such as a lisp). I will only be at the orphanage another month, so I don't have much time, but I will be working with this one girl every day, and probably more children as well, so hopefully I can help a little bit! The goal for this weekend is to figure out how I'm going to teach correct pronunciation of 's' in Spanish!