SLPMommyofApraxia Top Posts of 2015
Graphics by MyCuteGraphics
This year was definitely a big year for me and for apraxia awareness! I coordinated the Walk for Apraxia in Denver, I was honored to be published in the ASHA blog and on The Mighty twice; and of course as you all know, my story on Ronda Rousey having apraxia went viral and was featured in national publications and on Good Morning America! This lead to our popular facebook group Ronda Rousey: Knock out Apraxia, and numerous posts featuring our apraxia fighters attached to the hashtag #knockoutapraxia. It has been quite a year!
Thank you to all who follow along, everyone who helps raise awareness, and all who have reached out via email or phone and connected to me!
Here are my most viewed posts of 2015!
1.) Her Fight our Fight: The day we met Ronda Rousey. Read here
2.) Strategies to promote speech and language in the pre-verbal, or minimally verbal child with apraxia. Read here
3.) What is Childhood Apraxia of Speech? Read here
4.) Repetitive books that are great for speech and language. Read here
5.) Why nature weighs more heavily than nurture. Read here
6.) Prognosis is not just a funny word, there is nothing funny about it. Read here
7.) Global Apraxia, you brought your A-Game, but my daughter’s game is better. Read here
8.) Interview with Reagan, a 17 year old with CAS. Read here
9.) Feed the Snowman Articulation Game for high repetitions. Read here
10.) Interview with Sharon Gretz, the Executive Director of CASANA (apraxia-kids.org) about what you should be seeing in therapy. Read here
In case you missed it
These are some of my personal favorites and topics since I started blogging throughout the years
1.) IEP on the other side of the table chronicled Ashynn’s first IEP meeting and how I experienced first hand how difficult they are on a parent. Read here
2.) Ashlynn Play Boats with Daddy details persistent language and dyspraxic issues, but also progress and success. Read here
3.) DTTC: Evidence based treatment in CAS is an interview with national expert Ruth Stockel from the Mayo Clinic on treatment using this method. Read here
4.) Wait…is she the….R word? Read here
5.) Experience is the Key Architect of the Brain in CAS. Read here
6.) If We Don’t Say We’re Scared, Does it Mean We Don’t Have Fears? Read here
7.) Did I Cause her apraxia? Read here
8.) Lessons of a tricycle. Read here
9.) ABC song and Happy Birthday Jace. Read here
10.) What if We Don’t Prove Them Wrong? Read here
Happy New Year Everyone!