bebu,
I am soo happy for you. I can truly share your pain and your joy.
My son was born 10 weeks preemie and as he started to speak everything seemed fine and then one day he began to studder just a little. As he started entering pre-school there were times that he was so frustrated in talking that he would punch the ground and just stop trying...looking at me with such sad eyes that it tore me apart. He knew what he wanted to say and even how to say it, he just couldn't get his brain and his mouth to talk to each other. We were told this happens sometimes to kids born premature and sometimes it goes away and other times it does not.
We were heart broken for him as parents know how hard it can be growing up with any sort of communcation issue. He was such an outgoing and verbal kid and then this struggle. We are so very lucky to live in an affluent town (we rent, no $$$ here LOL) and the school system is wonderful. He spent a year with a speech therapist and when he entered first grade this year the studder is no longer noticable.
He is back to his outgoing, confident self and only gets stuck sometimes when he is very tired. I sit in my living room in the evening and listen to my son read stories to his mom and I and his new little sister. She of course coos and aaahs back at her Big Brother who in her eyes can do no wrong.
(((((((bebu & daughter)))))) You're in our thoughts and just keep that hope, not always easy I know but you never know when something wonderful like today will happen.