Having an Apraxia Sister is Hard.

Having an Apraxia Sister is Hard.

We are in the middle of a pandemic called COVID 19.  History books will write of it, and you will have remembered living it.  The Corona Virus – or COVID 19 put the world to a stand still.  Never before in the history of my lifetime or even your grandparents lifetime had the world come to a stop as it did in 2020.  Everything you could imagine was cancelled.  Basketball.

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The five words and a report card that broke me

The five words and a report card that broke me

It started with 5 little words. “I hope I did GREAT!” my ten year old daughter with about every learning disability possible said yesterday in the car. She was referring to her report card after her younger brother had pulled his out of his backpack and celebrated for getting all 3’s. With this new grading system, kids are given a number of 1-4. No one really gets a four because

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Apraxia and the Mamba Mentality

Apraxia and the Mamba Mentality

At the beginning of 2020, the world received word that world famous basketball player Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash with his daughter Gianna. After his death, people were chanting and hashtagging #mambamentality. Though I had heard of the “Black Mamba” and the “mamba mentality,” in relationship to Kobe, I have never followed professional basketball that closely, and didn’t really know the origin of the phrases or what they

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A letter to my son, a sibling to a child with a disability

A letter to my son, a sibling to a child with a disability

There’s this saying if you want to know how to treat a child with a disability or special needs, watch their sibling. Today after school I chatted with a mom who has a child with Down Syndrome in third grade. We’ll call him M. Ashlynn my daughter is in the integrated learning center program with him though she is in 4th grade, but they frequently see each other in the

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