these first responders really have no
idea what they've done I'm so grateful
tears of joy from a San Antonio mother
after her son who was born with an
incurable speech disorder is not only
talking but as an inspiration to law
enforcement their story is the next
feature on what's up South Texas a
series that highlights people making a
difference in our communities this week
the 19's Jeff Nigri introduces us to a
boy named moose and how his passion for
first responders helped him find his
voice because they helped the community
since he was three Pedro Salinas or
moose has had a mutual love for first
responders the first they even stopped
by during our interview to give him a
tour of a fire truck
he now has a voice very happy that you
can talk yeah I can stand up how do you
feel when they don't understand you
kinda says booth suffers from severe
apraxia of speech a disorder that makes
it hard for him to communicate it was
too when he was diagnosed he would get
so frustrated that he would just throw
his hands up in the air and his mom
Ashley Salinas spent countless hours
putting him through speech therapy but
nothing worked he would literally point
out everything that he wanted and just
say or and that was it
moose also struggled with balance and
even facial expressions I went through
blaming myself his mom
what devastated scared you know is my
child ever going to speak but something
happened is a three-year-old watching a
fire truck outside his home he's waving
at him so they blew their horn moose
spoke he turned to me and he goes
I nearly fell down because all of us
said now he had Abey Abey sound he never
had that before
a couple of days later moose saw a
police officer next thing I know my
three-year-old is running outside my
front door with a paper and a pen in one
hand I have this book and that is when
he began his collection of signatures
pictures and friendships with first
responders way more than he wanted to
talk about the pictures and the friends
that he was making and next thing I know
we have words just flying out of his
mouth and I guess he can say almost all
of these I met in Addis now at age nine
hundreds of signatures and pictures
later having issues with speech still
moose pins this time helping his
community his latest great act I want to
tell you to not give up keep going to a
boy named Logan who has the same
disorder why did she feel that she
wanted to right away
because if
if you can talk
so can he you know if I can talk he
can't - that is such a beautiful story
my eyes go moose that's quite a name how
do you get it okay I'm the same question
apparently he does this thing and I
think he did it when he was a little boy
even till this day but what happens when
he's walking and someone's walking in
front of him he says nothing if they're
moving too slow he either walks around
him or he goes right between their legs
to get to the other side so it tells a
lot about a special personality a big
heart he's involved or he threw his own
pet food drive where he raised over
eleven hundred pounds and pet food he
helped officers in hurricane Harvey
clean up he was even honored by the bear
County Sheriff's Office for not only
being an inspiration to them but being a
community leader to raise awareness for
a proxy of speech disorder but I also
would like to note that we do have video
of Logan receiving his letter from moose
so if people want to check that out look
at that very special reaction go to our
website ok so calm and we wish him well
thanks Jeff