Let’s Link Up for Apraxia Awareness Day 2015
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Strategies to promote speech and language in the pre-verbal or minimally verbal child with Apraxia
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…
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How do you say I love you?
There was a time I prayed for Ashlynn to tell me she loved me. Having apraxia and a language disorder made that tough. Even when she could repeat “I love you” when given a model, that didn’t mean she could volitionally pull it out and say it spontaneously. That took more years and work in therapy.
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Report cards are bittersweet with special needs
Yeah so that report card. It kinda makes me sick. I have to work up to reading it and it usually takes a couple of weeks.
Overgeneralization: a caution for clients with CAS
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…
That moment someone cried because they know “what she’s going through.”
When Ashlynn was in preschool, there was a sweet girl in her class I’ll call J. Her mom and I hit it off right away. Her mom is currently a stay at home mom, but she was a teacher before that. We have similar ideas on parenting, discipline, and just raising kids in general. We…
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The true stars of Vegas organize the apraxia walk
This weekend I was the guest speaker at the Nevada Walk for Apraxia and stayed with the walk coordinator Alyssa Hampson and her family. I flew in the day before the walk, and her house looked very typical of any other walk coordinator. It was bursting with items such as goody bags for the kids,…
