Oh apraxia is a sneaky devil. For so long I prayed to just hear her sweet voice say what she wanted to say. At some point she started imitating really well. She didn’t really call out to me “mama” and she didn’t really offer up “I love you” but she could say it in imitation, and this was good. This was very good…because NOT hearing those words was devastating. I
I first met a fellow mommy of apraxia at the Denver Apraxia Walk. She was pleasant with kind eyes, and said she felt her 5 year old son needed a change up in speech therapy services. The next week her son was scheduled for therapy at the private clinic in which I work. In most cases, I have my parents come with their child into my office. I NEED them
While working with one of my kiddos with CAS this past week, I improvised a fun way to incorporate prosody into our lesson. Since it’s around Halloween, we said his target words in different voices like our ghost voice, monster voice, or vampire voice! I decided to make a game that would work really anytime of year to work on prosody. Say it like a Costume Character has 2
The day started long before the AM. Preparations were in place to decorate the house after Ashlynn went to bed. This year was different though. When I left to leave while Cody was putting her to bed, she asked me where I was going. “Mama? Where you going?” Though I tried my best to cover, she asked, “You going for my birthday?” Freeze time. My daughter has ALWAYS been astute
Since Childhood Apraxia of Speech requires a different approach to treatment, principles of motor learning theory need to be driving therapy. You can read more about this in my two interviews: Sharon Gretz interview and Ruth Stoeckel Interview Since getting 100-200 reps per session can be tedious and difficult to keep new and fresh, I came up with this fun Halloween game to play while you work on the child’s target sounds.
What was it that Bill Cosby always said? Kids say the darndest things or something like that. Unless of course, you know, they don’t because they have apraxia of speech and can’t even say the most basic things. Or this that I just ran across: Unless of course, they don’t because they have Apraxia When Ashlynn was born, I wondered what her personality would be, the funny things she would
