Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live is iconic. It’s woven into the tapestry of American Culture. Weekend Update anchors tell the news and current events, but with a twist of humor. Colin Jost has been a weekend update anchor since March of 2014, but a writer for SNL since 2005. In his new book, A Very Punchable Face, Colin outlines in great detail a speech disorder he has that has
Sensory issues are a common co-morbidity to children with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS). Certainly my daughter with apraxia stemming from a genetic mutation has her own! In this post I’m going to share some various sensory related issues we have had throughout the years and strategies that helped. Sitting in Circle Time In preschool and even into Kindergarten, Ashlynn had a very difficulty time being able to sit in
We are currently in the middle of the COVID 19 pandemic. I have two children. A daughter 10 who has a host of disabilities, and my son 7 who is neurotypical. A positive surprise to this time not in school and inability to play with peers is that my children have bonded. They are currently in my son’s room in his bunk bed having a sleepover. He made sure to
We are currently in the middle of the COVID 19 pandemic. I think it’s week 4. I’m not sure. Time blurs. I was feeling it yesterday. The weight of it all. Not being able to leave the house. All the closures. Working from home while teaching my children and doing their assignments with them. The unknown about when this will end. All the cancelled events. I wrote last night I
When you have a child, you expect to teach them about the world. When you have a special needs child, you realize you have to teach the world about them. When you have an Ashlynn, like I have, you realize Ashlynn has something to teach the world. I didn’t expect to be the parent of a child with a rare genetic mutation. I had never considered two very important words
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.
