This month I’m excited to introduce Alyson Taylor! I’ve had the pleasure of hearing Alyson and her mother speak at the Apraxia-Kids National Conference; as well as speaking to her personally on a few occasions. Alyson is smart, witty, funny and has a great outlook on life! Oh, and she also grew up with Childhood Apraxia of Speech! Welcome Aly! Can you tell my readers a little bit more about
Before I knew my daughter Ashlynn had CAS, and before I spent countless hours researching, taking trainings, and becoming an expert in CAS; I was an elementary school SLP. Like any new SLP, I was relatively inexperienced with CAS. One year, I transferred schools and a 3rd grade boy with a dx of CAS popped up on my caseload. Most people, including his mother, still found him very hard
The great thing about speech and language, is that it a task that can be worked on in any activity. Familiar routines in the home provide the perfect platform for encouraging speech and language, because this “routinized language” is predictable and context based. A fellow SLP and mommy of apraxia, Kim from Landonjourney.blogspot.com and I teamed up for Part I in my series of parent strategies to promote speech at
I decided since my Spooky SpiderWeb game was so popular, I’d make another one for my kids with a winter snow theme. I go back to work tomorrow and I’m excited to play this with the kids. You start with printing out the snowman boards. Glue onto a manila envelope or cereal box and cut out the mouth. Then cut out the game cards and snow balls. Cutting
Ashlynn received two grants to help with her speech and occupational therapy over the summer! The United Health Care Foundation and the Lindsay Foundation made it possible! I am so grateful. Ashlynn will be back to getting intensive 1:1 speech and OT services. As far as speech goes, Ashlynn communicates her wants and needs. She has basic conversational skills and really does try to tell us what happened in
Winter is in full swing, and there is no shortage of books that talk about winter, snow, and winter clothing vocabulary. Also, the preschool in my district has winter clothing vocabulary on as part of the curriculum, so it’s perfect! The book is a repetitive, rebus style book that is great for practicing vocabulary, early reading skills, sequencing, and as always speech! I started with some cutouts from the story