Bilingual Children Not Getting Speech Therapy

Marian Cuiltre is an 8-year-old with autism. Unable to make the “sss” sound to say  “si,” she often responds with her own version—“thee.” She has the potential to speak more completely but has been on a waiting list to be assigned a speech therapist for more than three years now. Arizona is no exception to the…

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Tombstone Baseball Falls in State Tournament

Tenth seeded Tombstone High baseball fell 5-1 to 23-seeded Mogollon High School in an upset loss in the first round of the Arizona Intercollegiate Association Division IV State Championship tournament on May 3 in Tombstone, ending their season. “We had two goals: we wanted to get to the state tournament and we thought we could…

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Al Capone tries to take Tombstone

Wyatt Earp and the Town too Tough to Die will be put to a fictional test when Al Capone and his mob roll through town in May. The Tombstone Repertory Company, the city’s resident melodrama theater, is set to open its spring offering, “Prohibition Comes to Tombstone, or, Speak Easy But Carry a Big Gun.”…

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Niños bilingües no reciben terapia del habla

Marian Cuiltre es una pequeña de 8 años con autismo. Ella no puede pronunciar el sonido de la ‘s’ para decir “si”, por lo que a menudo responde con su propia versión, utilizando una ‘s’ labiodental (pronunciación de la ‘c’ y ‘z’ en España).  Marian tiene el potencial para hablar de una manera más completa,…

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